ANTHROP 1AA3 Study Guide - Ancient Dna, Massage, Rede Ferroviária Nacional
7 Dec 2014
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Pages 245-250 (death without weeping: by nancy scheper-huges, read case study. Often body is completely decomposed, burned or cannot be identified: reconstruction of osteobiography is important. Pages: 235-237 (april, 1: reburial and repatriation, burial excavation raises important ethical questions, many surviving communities retain strong emotional, religious ties with their ancestors, and excavation goes against their religious beliefs, so less excavation now a days. Pages 241-244 (april 4: health conditions before columbus: paleopathology of native north america, by: debra l. martin, alan. H. goodman: talks about the health impacts of the first epidemiologic transition, accompanied agriculture by foraging populations, anthropologists analyze health status, physical strength, functional limitation, infection, etc by studying bone lesions in skeletal remains. Iron deficiency anemia: anemias can affect any bones of the skeleton involved in production of red blood cells, mostly affect bones of cranium. Iron deficiency anemia appears widespread in most ancient populations: distribution of lesion corresponds with increasing reliance on agricultural products like maize.
