faunal assemblage - Answers -the animal remains recovered from an archaeological
site
kill sites - Answers -places where animals were killed in the past
Zooarchaeologist - Answers -An archaeologist who specializes in the study of the
animal remains recovered from archaeological sites.
faunal analysis - Answers -identification and interpretation of animal remains from an
archaeological site
Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) - Answers -the raw number of identified bones
(specimens) per species; a largely outmoded way of comparing archaeological bone
frequencies
Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) - Answers -the smallest number of individuals
necessary to account for all identified bones
axial skeleton - Answers -the head, mandibles, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail of an
animal skeleton
appendicular skeleton - Answers -all parts of an animal excluding the axial skeleton
Seasonality - Answers -an estimate of the part of the year a particular archaeological
site was occupied
Puna - Answers -Native American (Quechua) term for the treeless, windswept
tablelands and basins of the higher Andes
ch'arki - Answers -Native South American (Quechua) term for freeze-dried llama and
alpaca meat
macrobotanical remains - Answers -Nonmicroscopic plant remains recovered from an
archaeological site.
Paleoethnobotanist - Answers -an archaeologist who analyzes and interprets plant
remains from archaeological sites in order to understand past interactions between
human populations and plants
, Coprolite - Answers -Desiccated feces, often containing macrobotanical remains, pollen,
and the remains of small animals.
Palynology - Answers -the study of pollen and spores
pollen diagram - Answers -a chart showing the changing frequencies of different
identified pollens through time from samples taken from archaeological or other sites
Clovis - Answers -The earliest well-established Native American culture, distributed
throughout much of North America and dating 10,900 to 11,200 BC.
Phytoliths - Answers -tiny silica particles contained in plants
Bioarchaeology - Answers -the study of human remains in an archaeological context
Osteology - Answers -Study of bones
burial population - Answers -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 - Answers -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 - Answers -Burial of a person's bones, bundled together, after the flesh
has been removed or allowed to decay off the bones.
sciatic notch - Answers -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 - Answers -ends of long bones that consist of compact bone externally and
spongy bone internally (most bones are fused by age 25)
pubic symphysis - Answers -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 - Answers -the study of ancient patterns of disease, disorders, and
trauma
porotic hyperostosis - Answers -A symptom of iron deficiency anemia in which the skull
takes on a porous appearance.
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