COLL-C 104 Lecture 1: People & Animals week 1-4 notes
21 Sep 2018
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Creation story: can learn about animals as food (what ate what, hunting/capture methods, overhunting/extinction, fishing, animal & fish processing, ceremonial, eg: hupa white deer skin dance ceremony, art, rock art, mounds. Individual meals: stomach contents, fecal matter (coprolites, diet, human teeth, wear & situations, tooth decay, human limb bones, striations. Isotopes in bone & teeth: chemical signatures left by different foods. Sept 12: domestication: archaeology- animal remains, biology- dna analyses, relationship between animal species and their progenitors on the molecular level. < brain size: > body fat, < face and jaw, < smaller teeth, > juvenile traits, castration, > fat, behavior modified, behavior, social not solitary. Interaction with humans (4,000 years ago: food. Intrinsic: pets, economic contribution, nurtured, upset mistreatment, treated as family, pigs, economic dependency, treated differently, why keep pets, human substitute, prefer pets, complement (help relate to other things, human cute response.
