Abstract Objectives This study examines violence‐related cranial trauma frequencies and wound characteristics in the pre‐Hispanic cemetery of Uraca in the lower Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru, dating to the pre‐ and early‐Wari periods (200–750 CE). Cranial wounds are compared between status and sex‐based subgroups to understand how violence shaped, and was shaped by, these aspects of identity, and t...