Posted on 10/12/2020 4:24:14 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A new study of ancient Caribbean skulls suggests Christopher Columbus' accounts of fierce raiders abducting women and cannibalizing men ‘might’ be true.
In 1492, under orders from King Ferdinand of Spain, famed Italian explorer Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the New World of the Americas while trying to find a new route to India and has been both credited and blamed for having opened up the Americas for European colonization.
Columbus' accounts of the Caribbean include gory descriptions of fierce cannibals abducting and abusing women and eating men, and while most historians have regarded these stories as figments of Columbus’ imagination, a new study suggests the famous navigator might have been telling the truth...
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I wonder if they preferred BBQ sauce made with tomatoes or with vinegar? Or perhaps some horse radish?
And don’t even get us going on the Aztecs.
Ping.
Also, did they make gravy from the pan drippings?
They always have this mental fallacy of “everyone lived in peace back then” when going into things.
So they get gobsmacked when, for example, they found butchered human remains in the US southwest.
Or the skeleton of a child that had an arm severed and scattered..
They think everyone sang kumbaya and held hands, that violence is a modern invention.
I thought this was already relatively well established.
Sick things have always been done by humans.
They were pretty sick here way before any European got here.
They returned one girl to her village with her nose cut off..the injuns did.
Happy Columbus Day!!
At least on Staten Island that’s what we still call it.
Sick things have always been done by humans.
They were pretty sick here way before any European got here.
They returned one girl to her village with her nose cut off..the injuns did.
Happy Columbus Day!!
At least on Staten Island that’s what we still call it.
Amen!
In the last 120 years archaeologists have taken the position that Biblical accounts are to be consulted last, because they are considered the most unreliable. There are cases where some yahoo contemporary with Biblical history has posted an inflated history of their importance and historical significance and any detail in their rant is considered gold compared with the writings of Biblical authors.
Yup!
But too many in academia don’t want to hear it.
Happy Columbus Day!
I love it when you ping me on these things :)
Yeah, all was peaceful and sunshine and rainbows and roses before Columbus got here.
Don’t we have like a latin month and an african year celebration in this country?
Give us Italians one day!
We can even rename it “since we got our a$$es kicked, we want to change the name from Columbus Day to indigenous people’s day” Day :)
Tastes like dodo bird
I see that wiki flakcatchers er fakcheckers claim that it was enemies of the Karankawa indians who claimed they were cannibals.
They still can’t cover up human sacrifice in the western hemisphere
Or that greatly overstated maxim that PNW natives managed the forests with fire, so we should do the same. People with stone axes don’t manage forest fires, they do their best to get out of the way.
Ancient peoples who lived on small islands had a problem controlling their population to match the available resources. A good way to do that is to capture their enemies, enslave the women and children, and eat the men. Problem solved. Repeat as necessary. It wasn’t fair and it was racist, but life was a bitch back in the day.
Ancient peoples who lived on small islands had a problem controlling their population to match the available resources. A good way to do that is to capture their enemies, enslave the women and children, and eat the men. Problem solved. Repeat as necessary. It wasn’t fair and it was racist, but life was a bitch back in the day.
What does the Caribbean Queen, Comma la have to say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxX2gA18grk
Young girls INC.
You usually are not going to find evidence of cannibalism by examining the diet of a people.
Cannibalism is typically part of a religious rite that follows a battle.
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