ANT334H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Snake Hill, Occupational Stress, Health Indicator
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Questions to ask about population/culture: who are they & when did they live, how did they life what was their lifestyle, what happened to them, why. Learn about populations: begins with analysis of individuals skeletons. Osteobiography answers questions by examining skeletal age, sex, ancestry, stature, health, variation, evidence of violence, etc: adds to the archaeological and other data. In forensics this is known as the biological profile and it has a slightly different focus (id: tends to have a different standard of accuracy and precision. Format depends on nature of the work & purpose of report. Crm (cultural resource management: permit/ministry report, client. Research: permit report, funding agency, publication for peers. Key distinction: academic or popular audience. Typical scholarly paper format may not apply unless you write a journal article: intro background, significance, hypotheses, materials and methods, results, discussions and conclusion. Book chapter: focused on some specific aspect of the analysis or interpretation.
