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Navigating New Terrain So how can bioarchaeologists combine these lines of evidence to think about power in the past? What can we learn from the Copacabana Peninsula that is applicable to other parts of the global past, or our modern lives? This chapter looks closely at each period and identifies trends in power and community in relationship to larger environmental and social changes. Finally, the chapter considers how to apply these ideas to other studies of the past and present. The Preceramic Period The Preceramic individuals were excavated from the same site, Muruqullu. Given the proximity of the burials to each other, the overall small sample, and the phenotypic similarities between the buried individuals, it is likely that this group represents one particular Preceramic community, perhaps burying their dead at this location for a generation or two. The skeletal indicators assessed here show that this group living on and around the Copacabana Peninsula organized society in interesting ways. On the one hand, low-level endemic disease was likely an issue for them, perhaps contracting nonfatal zoonotic diseases related to their regular interaction with and consumption of wild and

Author

Sara L. Juengst

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781003175971

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, History