Chapter 3 Flashcards
What is typology?
A way of organizing artifacts in categories
What is an osteologist?
Someone who can read the form & function of a skeleton
Physical anthropologist
Read skeletons:
Age
Sex
Etc
Paleopathology
The study of health and desease in the past from skeletal evidence
What is sedentism?
Settling in a single, permanent location
What is palaeoethnobotany
The study of plant remains from archaeological context
What are coprolites?
Fossilized shit
What are trance elements
Elements found in extremely small amounts in the body
What are stable isotopes
Isotopes of the same ekements with different atomic masses
What is diagnesis?
Chemical changes that occure in materials after deposition in the ground
What is a carrying capacity?
The estimated population number& density that a area if land can support
What is ‘diffusion?’
The borrowing by one society of a cultural trait belonging to another society as the result of contact between societies
What is palaeopathology
The study of health and desease in the past from skeletons
