ANTH 20633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paleopathology, Taphonomy, Hip Bone
2 Nov 2016
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Cut marks vs tooth marks on animal bones. If specific bones are selected, omitted, or collected. Meat weight (kind, sex, time of year) Nisp (number of identified specimen): number of identified bones of each species as percentage of the total number of identified bones at a site: problems: Counts fragments of bones (a bone cut in half is two) Mni (minimum number of individuals): the least number of individuals who could have accounted for the animal bones present of a site. Features that identify a sex (like antlers) Epiphyseal fusion in long bones (attachments at the end) More arthritis at joints (also connected to labor) Context: do they appear when people settle there. Bioarcheology = study of human remains from archaeological sites. Mortuary archeology = study of how people treated their dead in the past. (inhuman vs cremation, what artifacts were buried with them. Taphonomy is more of how the entire site got buried.
