Cappadocia, Turkey from Europe or Mesa Verde, Colorado from the USA's Southwest Border??

As we already know from the lecture, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado are all states which are considered parts from The Southwest Border. New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado are states which are best known for their Anasazi communities.



There are similarities regarding the place called Cappadocia from Turkey and the place called Mesa Verde from Colorado. Let’s take a look at some pictures:

Cappadocia, Turkey:
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Masa Verde, Colorado:
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Based on Wikipedia.org, Ancient Pueblo people were an ancient native American culture which were located in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The name pueblo comes from Spanish and means “village”, because they were living in apartment like villages of stone.
Pueblo people were very good at weaving. They used to hunt and also, the main crop was corn. What is interesting is that the meat which they use to hunt it was stored in undergrounds pits. Make sense, they did not have refrigerators at that time, right? :)

If you visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Pueblo_Peoples#Warfare_and_cannibalism, you will learn that there is evidence regarding possible cannibalism rituals which occurred in pueblo tribes. To be more exactly, an excavation from 1997, in Dolores, Colorado found remains of at least two dozens a human skeletons that indicate violence and dismemberment. This evidence is not the only one: there are also unburies bodies which were found in places where Pueblo tribes used to live. There is no proof to indicate that the act of cannibalism was done for religious purpose or for survival/meat consumption...


Resources:
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1. www.wikipedia.org
2. http://www.mesaverde.com/Slideshows/hovenweep/hovenweepslide07.htm
3. http://www.dragonflydream.com/PuebloIndians.html