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Violent times: bioarchaeologies in the Americas

In recent years, a number of investigations documenting the antiquity and spatial distribution of warfare and ritual violence in the Americas have called for the dispassionate analysis of data and for the accurate contextualisation of the violence being reported (Chacon & Dye 2007; Chacon & Mendoza 2007a & b, 2012). To these publications are now added the well-researched volumes under review here. These works meticulously analyse the types of physical trauma visited upon victims and also explore the many underlying socio-economic and religio-political causes for such violent treatment.