ANTHRO 112 : Review
Document Summary
Paleoethnobotany (study of plant remains from arch record) Zooarchaeology (study animal bones in arch record) Small fauna remains (fish,birds,molluscus) use floatation to find. Skeleton anomalies nutritional stress & disease: severe nutritional deficiencies (iron) Teeth: wear patterns, cavities, enamel hyperplasia (growth stopped for a short period . Stable isotope values: c3, c4, cam, produces different stable carbon isotope ratios, fecal material. Women do all the work in the teepees. Separation male reindeer from females to cave in peace. Bones of the animals: wear on the teeth, sheep, pigs killed at different times. Archaeozooology chapter 12: relationship between humans and animals in past, age and sex of remains, site seasonality, tooth development age. Archaeobotany chapter 13: macro botanical remains. Floatation- recovered burned material: mico botanical remains. Bioarchaeology chapter 14: primary vs. secondary context, nutritional problems, modern dna, ancient dna. Interpretive framework: descriptive, adaptation and system approaches, individual and gender. First domesticated earliest domesticated was the dog.
