CAS AR 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Pelvic Inlet, Appendicular Skeleton, Soil Ph
29 Mar 2016
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Bioarch. reveals: sex; age, details about broader pop, disease & other pathologies, occupaion (someimes, diet, trauma (accidental, ritual, batle-inlicted, cultural bodily modiicaion, help us understand more like ideology & ritual, status, idenity, etc. Normal human body: 206 bones (300 at birth) more than adult b/c bones haven"t fused yet, skull: 28, torso: 52 26 vertebrae; 24 ribs; etc, 126 in appendicular skeleton (arms, hands, feet, legs) B: soil acidity, water, temp, extreme, stable enviro. best for preservaion, variable environments promote decomposiion of organic remains, sotness of bone. Infants & juveniles preserve less due to soter & less dense bones. 1: certain bones denser & preserve beter (e. g. teeth, lower jaw, etc. ) Determining sex: children diicult (dental measurements & dna if available, adults easier, shape of pelvis, male: Narrower angle where 2 pubic bones meet in front: female: Wider angle where the two pubic bones meet in front.
