Women's Studies 2162A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Syphilis, Paleolithic Diet, Paleopathology
12 Dec 2017
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It is a recent field of study: prior to the 1950s, archaeologists weren"t interested in human remains, skeletons often ignored, covered up or tossed away. Since the 1980s & 90s: huge growth in this field. What can we learn from ancient human remains: any job where you"re doing a repeated action for a long period of time would appear on the skeleton - ex. Goals of bioarcheology: answer questions about the individual and their community. Interpreting behaviours in past populations: cause of death, age at death, cultural behaviours (ex. Religious practices, health care: social stratifications (burial practices, dietary differences, division of labour (men vs. women, old vs. young, warfare, violence (ex. Mass graves: migration and ethnicity (how people move around the landscape, relatedness) How the dead are treated: different practices in different parts of the world, ex. In poland, there is a church that is completely made of skeletons: meant to be a monument.
