ANT 2100 Mehta Final Exam Questions
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faunal assemblage - ✔✔the animal remains recovered from an
archaeological site
kill sites - ✔✔places where animals were killed in the past
Zooarchaeologist - ✔✔An archaeologist who specializes in the study of the
animal remains recovered from archaeological sites.
faunal analysis - ✔✔identification and interpretation of animal remains from
an archaeological site
Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) - ✔✔the raw number of identified
bones (specimens) per species; a largely outmoded way of comparing
archaeological bone frequencies
Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) - ✔✔the smallest number of
individuals necessary to account for all identified bones
axial skeleton - ✔✔the head, mandibles, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail of
an animal skeleton
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,appendicular skeleton - ✔✔all parts of an animal excluding the axial
skeleton
Seasonality - ✔✔an estimate of the part of the year a particular
archaeological site was occupied
Puna - ✔✔Native American (Quechua) term for the treeless, windswept
tablelands and basins of the higher Andes
ch'arki - ✔✔Native South American (Quechua) term for freeze-dried llama
and alpaca meat
macrobotanical remains - ✔✔Nonmicroscopic plant remains recovered
from an archaeological site.
Paleoethnobotanist - ✔✔an archaeologist who analyzes and interprets
plant remains from archaeological sites in order to understand past
interactions between human populations and plants
Coprolite - ✔✔Desiccated feces, often containing macrobotanical remains,
pollen, and the remains of small animals.
Palynology - ✔✔the study of pollen and spores
pollen diagram - ✔✔a chart showing the changing frequencies of different
identified pollens through time from samples taken from archaeological or
other sites
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, Clovis - ✔✔The earliest well-established Native American culture,
distributed throughout much of North America and dating 10,900 to 11,200
BC.
Phytoliths - ✔✔tiny silica particles contained in plants
Bioarchaeology - ✔✔the study of human remains in an archaeological
context
Osteology - ✔✔Study of bones
burial population - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Burial of a person's bones, bundled together, after the
flesh has been removed or allowed to decay off the bones.
sciatic notch - ✔✔the angled edge of both halves of the posterior (rear)
side of the pelvis; measurement of this angle is used to determine sex in
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faunal assemblage - ✔✔the animal remains recovered from an
archaeological site
kill sites - ✔✔places where animals were killed in the past
Zooarchaeologist - ✔✔An archaeologist who specializes in the study of the
animal remains recovered from archaeological sites.
faunal analysis - ✔✔identification and interpretation of animal remains from
an archaeological site
Number of Identified Specimens (NISP) - ✔✔the raw number of identified
bones (specimens) per species; a largely outmoded way of comparing
archaeological bone frequencies
Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) - ✔✔the smallest number of
individuals necessary to account for all identified bones
axial skeleton - ✔✔the head, mandibles, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail of
an animal skeleton
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,appendicular skeleton - ✔✔all parts of an animal excluding the axial
skeleton
Seasonality - ✔✔an estimate of the part of the year a particular
archaeological site was occupied
Puna - ✔✔Native American (Quechua) term for the treeless, windswept
tablelands and basins of the higher Andes
ch'arki - ✔✔Native South American (Quechua) term for freeze-dried llama
and alpaca meat
macrobotanical remains - ✔✔Nonmicroscopic plant remains recovered
from an archaeological site.
Paleoethnobotanist - ✔✔an archaeologist who analyzes and interprets
plant remains from archaeological sites in order to understand past
interactions between human populations and plants
Coprolite - ✔✔Desiccated feces, often containing macrobotanical remains,
pollen, and the remains of small animals.
Palynology - ✔✔the study of pollen and spores
pollen diagram - ✔✔a chart showing the changing frequencies of different
identified pollens through time from samples taken from archaeological or
other sites
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, Clovis - ✔✔The earliest well-established Native American culture,
distributed throughout much of North America and dating 10,900 to 11,200
BC.
Phytoliths - ✔✔tiny silica particles contained in plants
Bioarchaeology - ✔✔the study of human remains in an archaeological
context
Osteology - ✔✔Study of bones
burial population - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Burial of a person's bones, bundled together, after the
flesh has been removed or allowed to decay off the bones.
sciatic notch - ✔✔the angled edge of both halves of the posterior (rear)
side of the pelvis; measurement of this angle is used to determine sex in
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