ANTH 1010H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Bioarchaeology, Ancient Warfare, Paleodemography
3 Sep 2013
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The analysis of past people and their individual lives by studying and interpreting their mortal remains. The study of prehistoric populations, including their number, distribution, density, sex and age structure, mortality and fertility. A burial exhumed from its original location and reburied elsewhere, such as in an ossuary. Information about an individual"s appearance, health, age at death, cause of death, and other characteristics derived from an analysis of the skeleton. The sex of a person calculated from measurements of the skeleton, such as the size of the opening in the pelvic girdle. The age of a person calculated from measurements of the skeleton, such as the extent of epiphyseal fusion. The process by which cartilage takes on calcium phosphate, which hardens the cartilage to bone. The process of fusion of the ends of the long bones to the shaft of the bones, generally by the late teens or early twenties.
