ANTH100 Midterm: Anthro 101 Midterm 2 Exam Review
22 Feb 2013
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Chapter 8 - understanding the past archaeological and paleoanthropological. Paleoanthropology- is the overall study of fossil remains. Surface such as survey or aerial views. Water can affect archeological site because it can move things around. Preservation bias- something"s changes and others don"t. Cultural activity pattern of habitations, are particular have to be closer to water. Taphonomy- study of process of transformation from the biosphere to the lithosphere. Usually focus on animal and human remains but can do this for everything. Site must be worked out in order to understand its depositional history. Destructive process, usually only want to sample a site. Want to get every bit of material. Got to know where it came form and all the information surrounding it. Got to know the geological to determine the history. Process in which the organic elements of bone are mineralized. First you die, then you decay and get trampled.
