Debra L. Martin is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV, USA.

Claira E. Ralston is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV, USA.

1 Mindful Bodies; 2 Portrait of a Desert Farming Community; 3 Everyday Life Matters: Social Violence at La Plata; 4 Wives, Mothers, Sisters, Slaves: Complexities in Roles and Relations; 5 Capturing Women, Capturing Power

This volume uses osteobiography and individual-level analyses of burials retrieved from the La Plata River Valley (New Mexico) to illustrate the variety of roles that Ancestral Pueblo women played in the past (circa AD 1100-1300).