ANTH 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Guano, Sheep, Predation
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Discussing early subsistence, make distinction between meals (direct evidence of various kinds as to what people were eating at a particular time, and diets, implies a pattern of what was consumed over a long period of time. More information comes directly from the remains of what is eaten. Zooarchaeology is the study of past human use of animals, now a big business in archaeology. Paleoethnobotany (archaeobotany) is the study of past human uses of plants (growing discipline. ) traces in stomach/fecal matter can tell what was consumed pg. Remains can be held in waterlogged areas, dry desert areas, volcanic eruptions and charred areas. (ceren, el salvador) where a wide variety have been found carbonized (impressions) in numerous vessels. Plant remains can survive wholly or partially by mineral percolating through sediment, process that tends to occur like latrine pits with high concentrations of salt. Mineralized by wet or dry screening (according to context)
