Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Permanent Teeth, Cementum, Passenger Pigeon
1 Mar 2017
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The means of supporting a life, a living, or a livelihood. Modern and historical: faunal remains, plant remains. Wear, caries: analysis of stable isotopes. Carbon, strontium: feces or coprolites, artifacts, prehistoric art. The analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites: closely related to taphonomy. Deposited assemblages: bones deposited in a site. Most interested in this as it shows what animals were hunted and being selected by the people living on the site. Fossil assemblages: bones that survive in the site. Sample assemblages: portions of the fossil assemblage that is collected. Difference between the actual animal and the archaeological animal . The deposited assemblage reflects the animals that were hunted and subsequently deposited on the site: affected by what parts of an animal were actually brought to the site. What survives in the deposited assemblage is affected by robusticity of the bones, actions of scavengers: the bones found on sites are not in the best of conditions.
