In his review article John W. Verano covered trauma, warfare, trophy taking, and human sacrifice, but his discussion mostly focused on the results of studies of museum or private collections and the recent discovery of the mass human sacrifice from Huaca de la Luna. Due to the renewed interest in the paleopathology of South America, a trend which Verano observed, these types of investigations have grown exponentially in the past twenty years since his initial publication. Here we synthesize the published data on the study and interpretation of traumatic injuries across time and space and we tease out some of the themes that have emerged in the twenty odd years since the seminal paper written by Verano. We searched and analyzed publications from 1997 to 2017 that pertained specifically to Andean South America through the review of library databases and then narrowed our search to trauma-related topics. In our literature review and meta-analysis of published studies on traumatic injuries, we found that nearly one-third of publications related to the field of paleopathology in Andean South America dealt with subjects we classified under trauma (N = 116/378), such as trephination, violence, sacrifice, warfare, etc. Large sample sizes, population-focused research, advances in methods of analysis, and hypothesis driven investigations have led to sophisticated and nuanced interpretations along a wide range of themes so that we understand a great deal more about violence, sacrifice, trephination, warfare and their sociopolitical and environmental contexts in prehistoric and early colonial Andean South America.

约翰·维拉诺（John W. Verano）在他的评论文章中谈到了创伤，战争，奖杯和人类牺牲，但他的讨论主要集中在博物馆或私人收藏的研究结果以及最近从Huaca de la Luna发现的大规模人类牺牲。由于对南美洲古病理学的兴趣重新引起关注，这是维拉诺（Verano）观察到的趋势，自从他最初发表以来，在过去的20年中，这类研究呈指数增长。在这里，我们综合了有关跨时空创伤研究和解释的已发表数据，并梳理了自Verano撰写开创性论文以来的20多年中出现的一些主题。我们对1997年至2017年间与安第斯南美地区特别相关的出版物进行了搜索和分析，方法是对图书馆数据库进行审查，然后将搜索范围缩小到与创伤相关的主题。在我们的文献综述和对创伤研究的已发表研究的荟萃分析中，我们发现与安第斯南美洲古病理学领域相关的出版物中有近三分之一涉及我们归类为创伤的主题（N = 116/378），例如大样本量，以人群为中心的研究，分析方法的进步以及假设驱动的研究，导致对各种各样的主题进行了复杂而细微的解释，因此我们可以理解很多有关暴力，牺牲，恐惧的更多信息，