Bioarchaeology of Societal Collapse and Regeneration in Ancient Peru

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara. Courses: Human Evolution, Human Osteology, Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology, the Bioarchaeology of Natural and Social Disaster, Biorchaeological Method and Theory (graduate seminar); 2013-present. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Science and Letters, Universidad Nacional Jose Maria Arguedas, Andahuaylas, Apurimac, Peru. Course: Introducción a la Sociología, Metodologia de la Investigacion; 2013-present.

• Chapter 1. Inequality and Innovation in the Aftermath of Empire.- Chapter 2. The Life and Death of the Wari Empire in the Andean Hinterlands.- Chapter 3. Chanka Origins and Community in Andahuaylas.-Chapter 4. Social Theory and a Bioarchaeological Perspective on Collapse and Reorganization.- Chapter 5. The Reorganization of Social Groups: Cranial Modification and Ethnogenesis.- Chapter 6. Cranial Trauma and Violence: Raiding and Ethnic Warfare in the Post-Imperial Era.- Chapter 7. The Sequelae of Structural Violence: Health and Nutrition in Troubled Times.- Chapter 8. Coping with Collapse: Trepanation and Medical Innovation.- Chapter 9. Conclusions: Resilience and Reorganization in the Ancient Andes.

“This 200-page volume is a revised version of the author’s 2012 dissertation. … Each chapter essentially stands alone, with its own bibliography … . The volume will interest archaeologists seeking to understand how the new subspecialty of bioarchaeology is being practiced and all Peruvianists interested in the Late Intermediate Period, just preceding the Inka.” (D. L. Browman, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)