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 …

John Verano's 1997 synthesis of Andean paleopathology guided two decades of research
and was instrumental in establishing modern Andean paleopathology. This paper reviews …

This targeted review of oral paleopathology in the Central Andes explores research that
focuses on a set of interrelated, multifactorial processes: dental caries, macrowear, alveolar …

Understanding the causes of subsistence economic adaptation remains a critical topic in
archaeology. Here we explore one potential causal phenomenon, climate change, to …

Chinese history from the Eastern Zhou to the Han Dynasty (770 BCE to 220 CE) witnessed a
social transition from conflicting territorial states to a prosperous empire. This study …

Objectives Inca imperial strategies of political and territorial expansion varied across
conquered regions depending on local ecology and cultural resistance, and Chachapoya …

Despite being one of the most famous archaeological cemeteries in Peru, many questions
remain about the people who were buried at the Paracas Necropolis of Wari Kayan, which …

Bioarchaeological approaches are well suited for examining past responses to political and
environmental changes. In the Andes, we hypothesized that political and environmental …

Using stable isotope and Bayesian Mixing Models, this study aims to understand the
preadult dietary patterns of human individuals from Huaca 20 (H20, 620–780 CE), a …

Objective The ubiquity of cribra orbitalia in skeletal samples has led to rigorous debate over
their etiology, with most concluding that nutrition, physiological stressors, and environmental …