[ANTHRO 129Q] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (38 pages long)
29 Mar 2017
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Biological anthropology paleopathology is the subfield of biological anthropology. Study of trauma, disease, health status & medical practices of ancient societies through 3 groups of data, their. Thigh bone of cave bear shows healed fracture. Callus: new bone formed over fracture represents healing. Skeleton of mosasaur: died in the process of giving birth. Squier skull shows signs of healing impossible native american could not have done it. You need labor agriculture need labor to produce food. Crop production constantly growing the same crops on the same soil are going to degraded the land and you need more and more work to get less and less food damages both land and laborer and productivity declines. More marginal lands are opened requiring heavier labor. Hypothesis more work will have more effect on the workers more agricultural you do decline in health of the laborers. Poor lands > more work > less food (bad circle)
