ANTH 2015 : Final Exam Review
Document Summary
Lecture 14: diet [ch 13 (281-297): road kill archaeology, laundry lists. Lecture 11: human osteology [ch 16 (367-375): field identification of bones, age of death, sex, health status (while alive, number of bones in the body, adult: 206. Infant: more since some haven"t fused yet: cranial (skull and mandible, post-cranial. Spinal cord: foramen magnum, aging, suture closure (when bones fuse together, newborn (soft spot of cartilage on skull, adult (sutures partly closed) Sutures close at known age ranges: fusion of long bones, diaphysis (shaft, epiphysis (ends, teeth. Sex: bone absorption (bones decay from loss of teeth, 99% accurate with complete skeleton, 85% accurate with hip bones, 60% accurate with skull, hip bone. Sub-pubic angle (female greater than 90 : mandible, male-angular. Female-sloping: brow ridge, male more pronounced, forehead, male-sloping. Spinal tuberculosis (bones disintegrate: head shaping (elongated skull, horseback riding (dislocation of hip bone and femur, pigeon-toed (dislocation of knee joint)
