Congratulations to the Research Group "The Archaeology of Dependency (ArchDepth): Resources, Power and Status Differentiation"! The first volume of the contributions to their International Conference Archaeologies of Dependency in Latin America held on September 7-8, 2023, has now been published as the 34th special issue in the Boletín de Arqueología of the PUCP in Lima.
The issue includes controbutions from many BCDSS members. First, Christian Mader, Tamia Viteri Toledo, Claire Conrad, Hanna Schubert et al. give an introduction to archaeology of dependencies in Latin America. In another article, PhD Researcher Paul Graf provides a spatial approach for the archaeological study of staple-based asymmetrical relations of dependency in the case of the southern maya lowlands. PhD Researcher Tamia Viteri Toledo and Research Group Leader Christian Mader write about the dependency and resistance in the Ecuadorian Colonial Amazon, and Christian Mader and Hanna Schubert adress the "Spatial dependency between irrigation systems and settlement patterns: water management on the pre-hispanic north coast of Peru".
You can read the full issue here.