...The author examines the bioarchaeology and the social impact of what he refers to as “trophy-taking”: the intentional placement of isolated elements from other individuals with the dead. In contextualizing the Site 12Fl73 cache relative to other known examples of trophy-taking, he suggests...

... are described and witch bottles and pierced and folded coins are discussed in the context of European traditions continued in the New World. Classic archaeological studies of ceramic pots, clay pipes, and caches of artifacts found on African American sites are presented as setting the standards for finding...

...This chapter explores the ritual use of objects at the Maya farming community of Chan. It examines the practices of placing objects in caches, burials, and terminal deposits in Chan's community center. The deposition of objects in ritual deposits illustrates the long historical development...

... of regional integration in the incipient polity that emerged at the end of the Terminal Formative period in the lower Ro Verde Valley of Pacific coastal Oaxaca, Mexico, through a comparative analysis of ritual object caches. It focuses on the site of Cerro de la Virgen to address this question from...