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Published online 7 September 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000907-9

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Going through the motions

The discovery of irrefutable evidence of cannibalism should lay a long-standing debate to rest, says Henry Gee.

Sometime around AD 1150, a small settlement in what is now Colorado was suddenly abandoned. Pots and tools rested where they lay, and had not been looted.

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