ANT200H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 12: Epiphyseal Plate, Hyperostosis, Ossification
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Ant200 week 12 nov20 reading pages 101-102 + 143-150. Living conditions, cultural interactions, population movements, and change in nutrition and health can be inferred from skeletal remains: as well as changes in subsistence systems. Goal of analyzing remains is to understand as much as possible about the biology and life history of the individual. Osteobiography life story inferred from bone evidence: accomplished through combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses. Constructing an osteobiography look at wide range of indicators on bones that provide basic info about person skeleton can tell use about age, sex, stature, and certain population characteristics. Need to use multiple indicators for most accurate assessment. Based on stature traits of historical and modern populations and attributed to people in the past. Measurements are expressed in mathematical formulas that can be applied to bones collected from the archaeological record. Racial determination race biological term that has become politically charged. Need to analyze metric and nonmetric traits.
