The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal
indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict …

Over the pre-Columbian sequence, Andean warfare ranged greatly in intensity. This review
combines published information on cranial trauma and settlement patterns, which often align …

In his review article John W. Verano covered trauma, warfare, trophy taking, and human
sacrifice, but his discussion mostly focused on the results of studies of museum or private …

Here we report the results of excavation and interdisciplinary study of the largest child and
camelid sacrifice known from the New World. Stratigraphy, associated artifacts, and …

Gender is only one of many axes of identity that may be involved in the construction of
personhood. Sexed and/or gendered bodies are always simultaneously combined …

Scholars continue to debate the identity of individuals curated as trophy heads in the Nazca
Drainage of southern Peru (c. 1–800 AD). What was the role of trophy heads in Nasca …

The Wari empire (600–1000 CE) of the pre-Hispanic Andes engaged in ritual practices that
included the modification and display of human trophy heads, but it is unknown from whom …

The site of Conchopata in the central Peruvian Andes was the secondary center in the
heartland of the Wari Empire (AD 600–1000), and in this study we examine whether this …

The unmarked category of man and claims of innate violence have been tightly linked in the
public imagination and in much scholarly work, both in views of the past and the present and …

This article addresses the bioarchaeological evidence for Inca warfare through an analysis
of 454 adult skeletons from 11 sites in the Inca capital region of Cuzco, Peru. These 11 sites …