Marta Alfonso-Durruty is a native Chilean and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her bioarchaeological work focuses on several regions of Chile. She is the co-editor of Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity.Deborah E. Blom is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She is a bioarchaeologist whose work addresses intersecting social identities, body modification, migration and colonization, and health and nutrition within ancient Andean societies.

“This book draws together a range of recent research on diet and foodways in the Andes, integrating stable isotope data with the results of zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical analysis. It highlights how vital foodstuffs and commensality in both everyday and extraordinary contexts transformed and generated social meaning and social relationships in the ancient Andes."—Robyn E. Cutright, author of The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are

Marta Alfonso-Durruty is a native Chilean and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her bioarchaeological work focuses on several regions of Chile. She is the co-editor of Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity.Deborah E. Blom is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She is a bioarchaeologist whose work addresses intersecting social identities, body modification, migration and colonization, and health and nutrition within ancient Andean societies.

“This book draws together a range of recent research on diet and foodways in the Andes, integrating stable isotope data with the results of zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical analysis. It highlights how vital foodstuffs and commensality in both everyday and extraordinary contexts transformed and generated social meaning and social relationships in the ancient Andes."—Robyn E. Cutright, author of The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are

Marta Alfonso-Durruty is a native Chilean and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her bioarchaeological work focuses on several regions of Chile. She is the co-editor of Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity.Deborah E. Blom is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She is a bioarchaeologist whose work addresses intersecting social identities, body modification, migration and colonization, and health and nutrition within ancient Andean societies.

“This book draws together a range of recent research on diet and foodways in the Andes, integrating stable isotope data with the results of zooarchaeological and paleoethnobotanical analysis. It highlights how vital foodstuffs and commensality in both everyday and extraordinary contexts transformed and generated social meaning and social relationships in the ancient Andes."—Robyn E. Cutright, author of The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are