Bioarchaeology of Social Control

Ryan Harrod has a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2013) and is currently an Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His research and expertise are in bioarchaeology, paleopathology and forensic anthropology. Working primarily with ancient and historic human remains, he is most interested in questions having to do with identity, health and disease, conflict and violence, social inequality, ethics, and repatriation.

• Chapter 1: Understanding the Chaco Phenomenon.- Chapter 2: Culture, Corn, and Complexity.- Chapter 3: Systems of Social Control.- Chapter 4: Chaco Canyon.- Chapter 5: Putting Chaco Into Context.- Chapter 6: Putting the People Back Into the Pueblos.- Chapter 7: Reassessing ‘pax Chaco’.- Chapter 8: The Role of Elites and Social Control.- Chapter 9: the Decline of Social Control in the Pueblo World.- Chapter 10: Conclusion.