Anasazi may have dined on venison

(Gunnison) Anasazi tribes who may well have resided along Fossil Ridge before real estate prices drove them to lower elevations, may have subsisted on venison stew. Artifacts discovered at locations such as Gunsight Pass and the East Fork of Adler Creek indicate that the Ancient Ones often relied on venison as a mainstay in their otherwise tedious diet of roots and berries.

Pottery and wood carvings found near ruins are often adorned with primitive images of herd animals and feasting, due to the inability to store meat for long. Jewelry, often created from deer and elk horns, points to this direct food chain as well according to scientists. Surviving shreds of clothing, although quite out of style by now, indicate the use of larger mammal hides.

“Prior to the introduction of corn and kinnikinnick these migratory stone agers probably fished in alpine lakes that dot the landscape,” said legendary archaeologist Dutch Gulch, for whom both Henry Mountain and Henry Lake are named. “We’ve found evidence in the form of discarded test line and salmon egg jars previously thought to be the trappings of much latter centuries.”

Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Biological Warfare facility at Gothic appear to be in concordance with these postulates saying that cave drawings often depict warriors chasing deer, and even elk.

“We presume that the Anasazi wanted to cook and eat these species,” said Anomie Judd of the Elkton Judds, for whom Judd Falls was named. “We know they ate rabbits and fowl due to the unearthing of fossilized fur and feathers in known settlement sites but frankly the practice of eating venison stew was a surprise to us.”

“It is not known if the Anasazi also consumed their wild game in chili or made jerky as early as 600 AD when these half-naked savages supposedly resided in these mountains,” said Gulch, “but be assured we are working on that aspect of the puzzle.”
– Fred Zeppelin