ARCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Uluburun Shipwreck, Artificial Cranial Deformation, Oxhide
28 Mar 2014
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Early workers learned it was stronger when made into an alloy. Bronze: alloy of copper and tin or arsenic. Copper and tin both limited so bronze metal production reliant on trade. Iron: more widely available than copper or tin. Americas never developed indigenously, but it did in africa. Shows evidence of trade in tin and bronze in form of oxhide ingots. A cluster of houses in teotihuac n that housed immigrants from oaxaca valley. People living there maintained their cultural identity through. Analyzed burials through oxygen isotopes in teeth that reflected characteristics of water consumed while teeth forming. Used to show that there was a constant flow of people between oaxaca valley and tlailotlac n. Most children had been there at least once. Hard to tell if tuberculosis was in americas before european contact because even though it causes cranial deformation, so do other diseases. In new study, dna taken from mummified remains and showed lesions consistent with tb.
