Marta Alfonso-Durruty is a native Chilean and an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Her bioarchaeological work focuses on several regions of Chile. She is the co-editor of Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity.

Deborah E. Blom is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She is a bioarchaeologist whose work addresses intersecting social identities, body modification, migration and colonization, and health and nutrition within ancient Andean societies.

"Exploring the multiple social, ecological, cultural, and ontological dimensions of food in the Andean past, this book offers a diverse set of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches that reveal the richness, sophistication, and ingenuity of Andean peoples. With 44 contributors from 10 countries, the studies presented in this volume employ new analytical methods, integrating different food data and interdisciplinary research to show how food impacts socio-political relationships and ontologies that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record"--