Benjamin A. Bellorado – “Dressing Up in the Ancient Southwest: The Fashions of Fancy Footwear in the Chaco and Post-Chaco Eras”
Clothing traditions are important components of all societies, and clothing both mediates the ways people interact with the world and allows us to negotiate identity politics. Archaeologists rarely have the opportunity to study dressing practices in ancient societies, due largely to issues of preservation. When clothes are encountered, they are usually removed from the contexts […]