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faunal assemblage ANS✔✔ the animal remains recovered from an
archaeological site
kill sites ANS✔✔ places where animals were killed in the past
Zooarchaeologist ANS✔✔ An archaeologist who specializes in the study of
the animal remains recovered from archaeological sites.
faunal analysis ANS✔✔ identification and interpretation of animal remains
from an archaeological site
Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) ANS✔✔ the raw number of identified
bones (specimens) per species; a largely outmoded way of comparing
archaeological bone frequencies
Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) ANS✔✔ the smallest number of
individuals necessary to account for all identified bones
axial skeleton ANS✔✔ the head, mandibles, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail
of an animal skeleton
appendicular skeleton ANS✔✔ all parts of an animal excluding the axial
skeleton
, Seasonality ANS✔✔ an estimate of the part of the year a particular
archaeological site was occupied
Puna ANS✔✔ Native American (Quechua) term for the treeless, windswept
tablelands and basins of the higher Andes
ch'arki ANS✔✔ Native South American (Quechua) term for freeze-dried llama
and alpaca meat
macrobotanical remains ANS✔✔ Nonmicroscopic plant remains recovered
from an archaeological site.
Paleoethnobotanist ANS✔✔ an archaeologist who analyzes and interprets
plant remains from archaeological sites in order to understand past
interactions between human populations and plants
Coprolite ANS✔✔ Desiccated feces, often containing macrobotanical
remains, pollen, and the remains of small animals.
Palynology ANS✔✔ the study of pollen and spores
pollen diagram ANS✔✔ a chart showing the changing frequencies of different
identified pollens through time from samples taken from archaeological or
other sites
Clovis ANS✔✔ The earliest well-established Native American culture,
distributed throughout much of North America and dating 10,900 to 11,200
BC.
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