ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Baktun, Occipital Bone, Shanidar Cave
Document Summary
Palenque ancient city state in southern mexico, from 226 bc - ad 799. Cancuen archaeological site of the pre-columbian maya civilization. Private was more common, priests and people of higher status, their blood was more valued, would cut genitals. Public was when a high status person, usually a priest of the king, would sacrifice his blood to the gods in front of his nation, this would be leading by example. Long count counting from fixed point (august 13th, 3114 bc) Much like current day humans, speech in different squeal tones, larger bones, existed at the same time as sapiens. Pleistocene and glaciations of, relating to, or denoting the first epoch of the quaternary period, between the pliocene and holocene epochs. the process, condition, or result of being covered by glaciers or ice sheets. An occipital bun is a prominent bulge or projection of the occipital bone at the back of the skull.
