Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Author; Chapter 1: Understanding the Chaco Phenomenon; The Greater Southwest; A Brief Overview: Life During the Chaco Phenomenon; Violence as an Ideology in the US Southwest; Human Skeletal Remains and Biological Anthropology; Social Theory in Bioarchaeology and Osteoarchaeology; Bioarchaeological Approaches to Violence; Where Do We Go from Here; References; Chapter 2: Culture, Corn, and Complexity; Life in the Post-Agriculture US Southwest; Ancestral Pueblo; Hohokam; Mogollon

Salado and Sinagua The Athabascan Cultures; The Multicultural Southwest; References; Chapter 3: Systems of Social Control; Defining Social Control; Social Control in the US Southwest; Forms of Social Control; Violent Social Control; Direct Violence; Structural Violence; Social Control During the Chaco Phenomenon; Social Control as Violence and Ideology; Ritual Sacrifice, Public Executions, and Witch Killings; Gambling, Prestige Items, and Debt; Navajo Versions; Pueblo Versions; Social Control During Times of Peace and Causing Conflict; Summary; References

Chapter 4: Chaco Canyon Settling in the Canyon; The "Chaco Phenomenon"; Centers of Control; Leaving the Canyon; References; Chapter 5: Putting Chaco into Context; A Tradition of Moving Across the Landscape; Aggregation; Reorganization; A Temporal and Spatial Context; References; Chapter 6: Putting the People Back into the Pueblos; Reconstructing a Bioarchaeological Profile; Site and Mortuary Context; Population Demographics; Site Complexity and Demography; Pueblo Bonito; Pueblo Bonito-Room 33; Pueblo Bonito-West; Peñasco Blanco; Pueblo del Arroyo; Kin Bineola; Wingate Sites

La Plata Sites Aztec Ruins; Summary; References; Chapter 7: Reassessing "Pax Chaco"; Reading the Bones; Biocultural Identity; Dietary Quality and Access; Activity Differences; Other Pathological Conditions; Traumatic Injuries; Identifying Social Control on the Body; What the Body Reveals; Dietary Access and Quality; Differential Patterns of Activity; Robusticity; Entheseal Development; Other Pathological Conditions; Traumatic Injury; Summary; References; Chapter 8: The Role of Elites and Social Control; Evidence of an Elite Class; Archaeological and Mortuary Data

Bioarchaeological Data Trauma as an Indicator of Social Control; The Not So Peaceful Chaco Phenomenon; The Nature of Leadership at Chaco; References; Chapter 9: The Decline of Social Control in the Pueblo World; Immigration; The Impact of Migrants; Ideology; Summary; References; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Why Is Chaco Unique?; References; Index