ANTHROP 2PA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Paleoethnobotany, Human Tooth Development, Disarticulation
8 Mar 2019
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Thinking from signs writing, symbols, and meaning. Studying landscapes and food ways thru analysis of ecofacts. Foodways interrelated system of food conceptualization, procurement, distribution, preservation, preparation, and consumption shared by members of a particular group. Study of animal remains to answer q"s about human activities: combines methods and models from arc, zoology, ecology, and paleontology, types of data. Residues: creating a type collection, comparative collections and chem standards, analyze bone fragments to id. Species, genus, but sometimes large vs small mammal: age and sex of animals when possible. Tooth marks or any other marks from killing or butchering the animals: problems w quantification/counting, disarticulation of skeletons. Comparative collection limitation: how to quantify animals on a site. Simple counts and weights: nisp = number of id specimens to species level, mni = minimum number of inds, meat weight = estimate amount of meat on each bone, use these arguments to build interpretations about, environment.
