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Reassessing “Pax Chaco”

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The Bioarchaeology of Social Control

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Abstract

This chapter will summarize the data collected on the human skeletal remains looking at evidence of dietary stress, disease, and trauma by site and mortuary context. What do the bodies reveal about the role of Chaco Canyon in the region? The goal was to assess if people were healthy and happy during the Chaco Phenomenon or there were indications of social inequality and violence. This chapter also demonstrates how a theory-centered bioarchaeological approach can provide insight into how an individual’s lived experience changed with the development of the “Chaco Phenomenon” during the late Pueblo I through the early Pueblo III period. As mentioned in Chap. 1, the major objective of this study was to investigate how complexity led to a system of social control in the ancient Southwest during the Chaco Phenomenon (c. AD 850–1300).

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Harrod, R.P. (2017). Reassessing “Pax Chaco”. In: The Bioarchaeology of Social Control. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59516-0_7

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