ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Porotic Hyperostosis, Enamel Hypoplasia, Faunal Assemblage
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First determine if it is human: then determine the sex and then age. Vs adult (pelvis, skull pop"l(cid:374) depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t) Paleopathology: trauma: antemortem; perimortem; post mortem, disease affect bone, ex, iron deficiency, porotic hyperostosis, cribra orbitalia, harris lines: growth arrest lines disease trauma, malnutrition, enamel hypoplasia growth arrest in laying down of enamel. Age and sex profile of a pop. Isotopic analysis: human bones refelect isotopic ratios of plants ingested during life, look at ratio of carbon isotopes in bone collegian. Human behavior is involved in the assemblage (so differ from palaeontological sites) Bones lie more or less the way they were when the hunters left. Identify the bones compare to faunal collection : commingled. Ist assign every fragment to an element (e. g, proximal end of rib; phalange)- skeletal part of the body: 2nd assign every fragment to a taxon (species, genus, family, order)
