ANTH 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Ras Al Hadd, Frostbite, Human Hair Color
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Dark skinned men in winter more likely to get frostbite. Ethiopian 3x more likely than american to get frostbite. African americans 4-6x more likely to get frostbite than white people. May be related to living in warm/colder climates. Some hair forms that look similar are different under a microscope: eye color. Determined by amount of melanin anterior layer and stroma on eye. Not sure what function adaption of light eye is. Pleiotropic: belcher lecture ancient trade and fisheries in the gulf of oman- third millennium bce. Oman is situation in a key position between mesopotamia and the indus valley civilization. =with links to iran and baluchistan as well as yemen and north africa. Umm an nar period and integration (h) period homogeneity begins. Empire" things start looking similar in burials, ceramics, etc. Indus tradition: regionalization era- 5000-2600bc incipient urbanism writingand reading begins. Wheat and barley agriculture, cattle, sheep, goat and highly specialized crafts, writing and standardized weights.
