The Bioarchaeology of Artificial Cranial Modifications : New Approaches to Head Shaping and its Meanings in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and Beyond (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)

The systematic examination of Mesoamerican skeletal series fosters an explained review of indigenous cultural history through the lens of emblematic head models with their nuanced undercurrents of religious identity and ethnicity, social organization and dynamic cultural shift.