ANT203Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paleolithic Diet, Dental Caries, Zoonosis
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Lecture 11: demographic trends (final material and exam review) This assumes that we have not evolved since then (ability to process starch sugars: eg. lactose intolerance) Part of the paleo problem is misinterpretation of scientific literature. Humans are sexually dimorphic (we get a full range between male and female pelvis etc. ) There is more of a gradient than exclusive categories but we try to identify lines. When population gets too high, it either leads to innovation or decimation; in neolithic it happened to be the invention of farming. In mississippi, mean age of death dropped when agriculture started. Transition: big change in 0-5, they are drawing that mean down. Can identify arthritic and joint diseases, traumatic injury, infectious desiease (leprosy), metabolic disease (eg. iron deficiency) Bone doesn"t capture everything and person has to stay with the disease for a long time. Decline in stature due to agriculture (people got shorter in many population)
