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Putting the People Back into the Pueblos

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The Bioarchaeology of Social Control

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This chapter takes a bioarchaeological approach to understanding the Chaco Phenomenon by assessing changes, shifting patterns of site complexity, and population demography over time and throughout the San Juan Basin. To accomplish this we cannot focus solely on the biological bodies but also understand the archaeological context in which the bodies were recovered. The value of a bioarchaeological perspective is that it includes an archaeological reconstruction of sites, the mortuary context for burials when it was available, as well as the reconstruction of the demographic profile of the population.

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Harrod, R.P. (2017). Putting the People Back into the Pueblos. In: The Bioarchaeology of Social Control. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59516-0_6

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