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Bethany L. Turner is professor of anthropology at Georgia State University. She is the coauthor of Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways on the North Coast of Peru: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Adaptive Transitions.

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Chosen Women illuminates the intersections between foodways, diet, gender, and power in the expansive Inka ceremonial complex of Saqsaywaman, Peru. Bioarchaeologist Bethany L. Turner, using the latest in research techniques, posits osteobiographies for elite servants in the heart of the vast empire. Their skeletons, revealing a wealth of data, date to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and were previously excavated by Peruvian archaeologists.