IT’S ALMOST AS IF THEY WERE SAVAGES: Mexican site reveals sacrifice of Spanish conquistadors, cannibalism.

Some place the number of people in the group as high as 550. Cortes had been forced to leave the convoy on its own while trying to rescue his troops from an uprising in what is now Mexico City.

Members of the captured convoy were held prisoner in door-less cells, where they were fed over six months. Little by little, the town sacrificed, and apparently ate, the horses, men and women. . . .

The skeletons of the captured Europeans were torn apart and bore cut marks indicating the meat was removed from the bones. . . .

Fifty women and about 10 children are estimated to have been in the convoy, and all were killed. . . .

“This seems to be even more spectacular information about an important event of the Conquest … about which we have very little historical documentation,” wrote University of Florida archaeologist Susan Gillespie, who was not involved in the project. “It does add new dimensions to the acts of resistance of the indigenous people.”

“Acts of resistance”!