Objectives This study examines violence‐related cranial trauma frequencies and wound
characteristics in the pre‐Hispanic cemetery of Uraca in the lower Majes Valley, Arequipa …

Archaeological data from the Jequetepeque Valley suggest that Late Moche warfare and
religious sacrifice were embedded in a particular cosmological and gendered construction …

In the past ten years archaeologists have produced a vast literature on the study of gender in
the prehispanic New World. This review defines key concepts, identifies three major themes …

Sarah Milledge Nelson's bold thesis is that the development of states in East Asia—China,
Japan, Korea—was an outgrowth of the leadership in smaller communities guided by …

Sarah Nelson, recognized as one of the key figures in studying gender in the ancient world
and women in archaeology, brings together much of the work she has done over three …

Previously, the Chimú empire was thought to have dominated the north coast of Peru during
the Late Intermediate period, virtually to the exclusion of other polities. However, new …

The present study examines over 1,000 artifacts from the Cemetery of the Sacrificed Women,
a Late Horizon ritual burial context from the Temple of the Sun, Pachacamac, Peru. The forty …

Collections of objects wrapped in containers, called bundles, are known throughout the
Americas. Drawing upon ethnographic literature, especially descriptions of bundle use in the …

South American archaeology has long been criticized for lagging behind its other
Americanist peers in terms of theoretical advances. Unfortunately, this critique applies to the …

Feminist theory (not merely adding women to archaeological interpretations) is still needed
in archaeology to eliminate earlier biases that are expressed in many ways. This paper uses …