ANTH 2015 : Final Exam
Document Summary
Field identification of bones: age at death, sex, health status (while alive) Human osteology for archaeologists: adult skeleton 206 and, newborn skeleton more (a lot of cartilages and there are separate bones that form into pure bones) Skeleton: cranial (skull and mandible, post-cranial, spinal cord, foramen magnu, aging, suture closure, newborn bones get closer together and form one bone. Sutures close a known ages: fusion of long bones when you age, diaphysis (shaft, epiphysis (ends, fuse at known ages, teeth, really good for aging to a certain point b/c teeth don"t continue to grow. Then it is no longer good for aging: bone absorption. Age and sex from bones: constellation of traits. Health status: metric traits, ex: height from measuring femur length, non-metric traits os inca having extra bones, shovel shaped incisors (inherited characteristics) Lifesyle: cranial deformation (shape the head) elongated skull, horseback riding can cause dislocation of hip bone and femur (femoral acetabular impingement - fai, fighting.
