Award Date
May 2023
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Committee Member
Debra Martin
Second Committee Member
Karen Harry
Third Committee Member
Barbara Roth
Fourth Committee Member
Susan Johnson
Number of Pages
51
Abstract
The La Plata Population represents a series of Ancestral Puebloan sites along the La Plata River outside Farmington, New Mexico dating from 600-1200 CE. Past research has argued that several captive females in this population experienced impairment due to illness or trauma. Entheseal changes can reflect experiences of hard labor, and so provide insight into adaptations to mobility impairments as well as the physical impacts of captive labor on the body (Henderson et al 2013). Measurement of entheseal changes utilizing the Coimbra method has demonstrated that sexual and class divisions of labor existed in the La Plata community, with captive females performing different habitual labor than age-matched in-group females and males. Consideration of entheseal changes, mortuary context, trauma, and pathology through a dis/ability lens will provide more nuanced understanding of the experiences of captivity as well as how captivity itself could be a disabling identity.
Keywords
Ancestral Pueblo; Bioarchaeology; Disability; Entheseal Changes
Disciplines
Biological and Physical Anthropology
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Stansbury, Kathleen D., "Experiences of Violence and Captivity: Labor Divisions at La Plata (Ad 600-1250)" (2023). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 4785.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/4785
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