ANP 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Coprolite, Ancient Dna, Strontium
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Subsistence - how people obtained food and what people ate. Seasonality - the time of year a site was used. A series of contemporary sites occupied during different seasons may be shown to be part of the same settlement system. Paleoenvironmental - plant and animal remains in archal sites can tell us much about what kinds on ecosystems were present at various times in the past. Cltr - plant and animal remains provide evidence of behavior that is not strictly adaptive; symbolic/ritual activities. Artifacts and features related to food-getting and food processing. Plant and animal food remain in features, sediments. Stable carbon, nitrogen, strontium isotopes in skeletal remains.
