Anthropology 2229F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Herbivore, Humerus, Canine Tooth

• School: Western University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: Anthropology 2229F/G
• Professor: Peter Timmins

Document Summary

Anthro 22229 lecture 14 notes lecture 7 - people, plants and animals in the past. The means of supporting a life, a living or a livelihood. Feces or coprolites - in this part of earth, they"re rarely preserved but in places like. South, peru etc they"ll dry out and preserve in very dry environments. The analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites closely related to taphonomy. Deposited assemblage - what we nd is largely due to bones deposited in a site. Fossil assemblage - but important to make distinction of which bones that survive in the site. Sample assemblage - portion of the fossil of assemblage that is collected. The deposited assemblage re ects 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 etc.