ARCA1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anemia, Syphilis, Strontium
31 Jul 2018
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The physical individual: preserved as bodies/body parts, we rarely know their names, archaeology adds information about their biology and how they lived. Biological sex using the skull: supra-orbital ridges, mastoid process, nuchal crest. Biological sex using the pelvis: size and shape of the inlet (birth canal, width of the notch of the hip bone, size of the sub-pubic angle. Sources: art/photography: dwarfism, poliomyelitis, medical and other prostheses (wigs, dentures, etc. ) Study of diseases in ancient populations (inc. ancient trauma) Rickets: lack of vitamin d, bones become bent and distorted. Scurvy: lack of vitamin c- interferes with collagen production. Occupations: muscular damage caused by physical labour, bony growths caused from overusing bones e. g. free diving, tooth damage/bony growths from chewing leather. Strontium and oxygen isotopes in bone and teeth help to tell where a person was born and where they were living before their death: place where you grew up: tooth enamel = childhood 3-4 years old)
