ANT340H5 Lecture 1: ANT340 LEC1 070119
Document Summary
Explains human behaviour with evolutionary and biocultural framework: link demographic (population individual), biological (access to resources and health) and cultural processes within ecological framework. Problem-oriented, interdisciplinary research: mortuary archeology + human remains, we can situate modern problems inside a historical framework. Debates/ high profile examples: first nations burials, kennewick man. Historic non-native: harvie family cemetery reconstructed lives and deaths of individuals of the. In ontario 86% of the burials found are first nations. New parish hall addition: close adjoining cemetery. Tombstones and burial records destroyed by fire. Believed most bodies reburied in municipal cemetery: assumed 30 in cemetery. Agreed to arch recover and analysis finding over 1000 individuals. Excavated only area affected by construction: 595 individuals recovered. Research generated: test sex, age methods, comparisons of documents to skeletal analyses, weaning practices and health, health issues in the 19th century. Explicit info: gravestone dates of birth and death.
