ANTHROP 3401 Lecture 9: Zooarchaeology and Paleobotany
16 Feb 2017
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Sex: from various characteristics (e. g. antlers on male deer: age: from tooth eruption and bone fusion, taphonomy (marks left from human and natural processes occurring between death and recover, butchery marks, fracturing, burning, carnivore gnawing, Weathering : other interesting details pathologies, used as tool, and so forth, taxon: linnaean system hierarchical groupings of species, north american elk. Anthro 3401: class: mammalia, order: artiodactyla (two hoofed mammals) Family: cervidae (ruminants deer, elk, red deer, moose, etc. ) Species: cervus canadensis: age and sex determination. Sex can be determined from morphology or measurements: age from bone fusion or tooth eruption, and sometimes other factors, how were animals processed/used, nunamuit woman crushing bone for grease rendering. Femur, metatarsals, humerus, radius, ulna and metacarpals: differential consumption case study, jackson and scott (2003) yarbough and scarbough mississippian. Anthro 3401: early human populations (clovis and folsom) caused extinction of herbivorous megafauna via over hunting.
