ANT 2100 Mehta Final Questions With Correct Solutions
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faunal assemblage - Answer-the animal remains recovered from an archaeological site
/.kill sites - Answer-places where animals were killed in the past
/.Zooarchaeologist - Answer-An archaeologist who specializes in the study of the anim...
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faunal assemblage - Answer-the animal remains recovered from an archaeological site
/.kill sites - Answer-places where animals were killed in the past
/.Zooarchaeologist - Answer-An archaeologist who specializes in the study of the animal
remains recovered from archaeological sites.
/.faunal analysis - Answer-identification and interpretation of animal remains from an
archaeological site
/.Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) - Answer-the raw number of identified bones
(specimens) per species; a largely outmoded way of comparing archaeological bone
frequencies
/.Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) - Answer-the smallest number of individuals
necessary to account for all identified bones
/.axial skeleton - Answer-the head, mandibles, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail of an
animal skeleton
/.appendicular skeleton - Answer-all parts of an animal excluding the axial skeleton
/.Seasonality - Answer-an estimate of the part of the year a particular archaeological
site was occupied
/.Puna - Answer-Native American (Quechua) term for the treeless, windswept
tablelands and basins of the higher Andes
/.ch'arki - Answer-Native South American (Quechua) term for freeze-dried llama and
alpaca meat
/.macrobotanical remains - Answer-Nonmicroscopic plant remains recovered from an
archaeological site.
/.Paleoethnobotanist - Answer-an archaeologist who analyzes and interprets plant
remains from archaeological sites in order to understand past interactions between
human populations and plants
/.Coprolite - Answer-Desiccated feces, often containing macrobotanical remains, pollen,
and the remains of small animals.
, /.Palynology - Answer-the study of pollen and spores
/.pollen diagram - Answer-a chart showing the changing frequencies of different
identified pollens through time from samples taken from archaeological or other sites
/.Clovis - Answer-The earliest well-established Native American culture, distributed
throughout much of North America and dating 10,900 to 11,200 BC.
/.Phytoliths - Answer-tiny silica particles contained in plants
/.Bioarchaeology - Answer-the study of human remains in an archaeological context
/.Osteology - Answer-Study of bones
/.burial population - Answer-A set of human burials that come from a limited region and
a limited time period. The more limited the region and the time period, the more
accurate will be inferences drawn from analysis of the burials.
/.charnel house - Answer-A structure that eastern Native Americans used to lay out the
dead where the body would decompose. The bones would later be gathered and buried
or cremated.
/.bundle burial - Answer-Burial of a person's bones, bundled together, after the flesh has
been removed or allowed to decay off the bones.
/.sciatic notch - Answer-the angled edge of both halves of the posterior (rear) side of the
pelvis; measurement of this angle is used to determine sex in human skeletons.
Although its width varies among populations, narrow notches indicate a male and wider
notches indicate a female.
/.Epiphyses - Answer-ends of long bones that consist of compact bone externally and
spongy bone internally (most bones are fused by age 25)
/.pubic symphysis - Answer-Where the two halves of the pelvis meet in the groin area;
the appearance of its articulating surface can be used to age skeletons.
/.Paleopathology - Answer-the study of ancient patterns of disease, disorders, and
trauma
/.porotic hyperostosis - Answer-A symptom of iron deficiency anemia in which the skull
takes on a porous appearance.
/.cribra orbitalia - Answer-A symptom of iron deficiency anemia in which the bone of the
upper eye sockets takes on a spongy appearance.
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