Warfare impacts how people and populations can move about the landscape.
Ethnographers have posited that internal warfare, conflict that takes place within a single …

Dental markers have been used to unravel particularities of paleodiet, subsistence, social
structure, and health. This article aims to compare oral pathology among four pre …

ABSTRACT A large, fragmentary, and commingled assemblage of human and animal bone
worked and unworked bone, and pathological human teeth was excavated from the S …

One of the most impressive examples of an Inca capacocha ceremony was discovered
during an archaeological expedition to the summit of Misti volcano in 1998. The offerings at …

Humans have altered their bodies in manifold ways for ages, and the ancient Maya are no
exception. Especially before the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, most Maya …

This dissertation uses archaeological cemetery data from the Julio C. Tello Nasca skeletal
collection to investigate the health impacts of the development of social complexity on the …

Abstract During the Early/Middle Postclassic (AD 900-1350), the Aztatlan Tradition spread
throughout Western Mexico and grew to be one of the most influential groups in the region …

Tropical coastal environments expose individuals to a wide array of stressful conditions, but
at the same time are supposed to grant settlers a qualitatively richer and more varied diet …

To date, we have documented or recovered the remains of over 15 individuals in the Nejapa
region of Oaxaca. This paper summarizes these finds and takes a first step in comparing the …

This study analyzes oral pathological conditions—caries, antemortem tooth loss, and
occlusal macrowear—among adults (N= 70) interred at Machu Picchu, Peru. Previous …