ANTH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rickets, Fallacy, Tooth Pathology
9 Sep 2016
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The means of which you are getting your food. Agriculture is the main subsistence in large societies. What happens when you change from hunter and gathering to agriculture. Childe 1951- hunter and gather not doing well. Paleopathology at the origin of agriculture - cohen and armelagos 1984. Health was worst after agriculture based on studies from skeletons. Maze is not nutritionally great because it is low in iron and prevents body from absorbing iron. 65 sites in the new world and n=12, 00. 6k skeletal collection in the university of tennessee museum. Chilean sites mostly costal and diaguita also has valley sites. Happens when you run into some high physiological situation during your tooth development at childhood. Caries- cavity abscesses are worsen cavity and the infection eats the bone. Cribra orbitalia- pin holes in the eye socket. Spongy bone becomes overgrow: body needs more bone marrow. Caused by not enough iron in your diet.
