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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 18 July 2007  Page Views: 7820

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Jemez Gallina Culture
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 6.15 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Jemez Springs, NM
Latitude: 35.771000N  Longitude: 106.714W
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
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Jemez Gallina Culture submitted by AKFisher : A reconstructed tower of the Gallina culture Northern New Mexico. Wiki:(Andreditor). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Sandoval County, New Mexico.
The Gallina Culture of the Ancestral Puebloans is characterized by round stone towers and thick-walled, individual room buildings, as well as their black and white pottery. The Gallina appear to have been eliminated from north west New Mexico around 1275 AD. From their burned settlement sites and the brutalized remains they have been described as "isolated, defensive, and violent."

There are several sites (tower foundations, buildings and pit house remains) near Jemez Springs on US Forest Service properties. The location given is approximate.

Note: Remains point to arson and murder in a time of ancient drought.
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Re: Ancient New Mexico Massacre - Genocide? by Anonymous on Thursday, 20 September 2007
Given the evidence of a serve drought at about the time, the Gallina massacre could have been attacks by big cats and wolves and or bears which could have inflicted the wounds described.
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    Articulated bones by bat400 on Friday, 26 October 2007
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    A massed attack on a family group by a "pack" of carnivores wouldn't be impossible, but these appear to be articulated skeletons in close proximity near a home site and one would guess, fire. If it were hungry animals attacking to eat the humans, it seems very unusual that they didn't tear the bodies apart or drag the individual away from the attack site.
    Other Gallina remains have been found among the burn rubble of their houses.
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Ancient New Mexico Massacre - Genocide? by bat400 on Wednesday, 18 July 2007
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Seven skeletons discovered in a remote New Mexico canyon were victims of a brutal massacre that may have been part of an ancient campaign of genocide, archaeologists say. The victims—five adults, one child, and one infant—were members of an obscure native culture known as the Gallina, which occupied a small region of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100 (see New Mexico map).

The culture suddenly vanished around 1275, as the last of its members either left the region or were "wiped out," archaeologists say.
The newfound skeletons could provide crucial clues to the people's mysterious fate, since scarcely more than a hundred Gallina remains have ever been found, said Tony Largaespada, an archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service who made the discovery in 2005.

"Almost all of [the Gallina ever found] were murdered," he said. "[Someone] was just killing them, case after case, every single time." Greg Nelson, a physical anthropologist at the University of Oregon, studied the newly unearthed skeletons and said they paint a macabre picture of violence inflicted on both sexes and all age groups.

One skeleton was found with a fractured skull, forearm, jaw, thighbone, and pelvis, and several broken ribs, Nelson said. Another bore cut marks on the upper arm that suggest blows from an ax. The child, about two years old, had had its skull crushed.

For more, including signs of the Gallina being a varient ethnic culture among other Ancestral Puebloan people, see
National Geographic.
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