AR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dental Plaque, C4 Carbon Fixation, Tooth Pathology
15 Nov 2016
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Sources means of acquiring minimal resources needed for survival: diet. Nourishment or energy gained from foods consumed = quality of diet. Ethnohistorical accounts: neutral subsistence mixed, agriculture, hunting, gathering, fishing, and trade, women did all agriculture work, responsible for storage and preparation, corn was prepared over 20 different ways. Material culture: tools, vessels, and residues, provide information on: Procurement, preparation, storage, food, diet, and nutrition: plant impressions on vessels, crusts of burnt food on the inside of vessels, chemical structures of fats, oils, and waxes released during cooking soaked into the ceramic. Botanical remains: paleoethnobotanists study macro and micro remans and residues, mainly preserved through charring: Biased samples: floatation separates light fraction: Human remains: mummies and paleofeces provide direct evidence of foods consumed, short term view. Effect of adoption of agriculture have on humans and their environment: disease ecology, interaction between behaviour, ecology, and pathogen biology, dynamic equilibrium, epidemiology.
