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17 Cards in this Set
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Osteology
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The study of bones.
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Synostosis
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Joining of separate pieces of bone
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Bone microstructure
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As we age, our bones change in a measurable way.
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CAT
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Computerized axial tomography
can be used to look at skulls trapped inside rock-hard matrix |
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Brain endocasts
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Latex rubber imprints of skull to get cranial capacity
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Paleopathology
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Study of ancient diseases
-Tells more about life than death |
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Forensic archaeology
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helps in the recovery and interpretation of murder victims, as well as trying to identify individuals within mass burials.
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Surface tissue
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Can give evidence of disease, deformity, and death
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Leprosy
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Erodes bones of the face and extremities in a distinctive manner
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Sprengel's deformity
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One shoulder blade higher than the other.
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Harris lines
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Opaque classified formations that are arrested growth lines.
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Beau's lines
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Like Harris, but on fingernails and toenails.
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Trepanation
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Cutting out a piece of bone from skull to alleviate pressure/release demons.
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Nutrition
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Measure of a diet's ability to maintain the human body in its physical and social environment.
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Demographic archaeology
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Concerned with estimates from archaeological data of various aspects of populations such as size, density, and growth rates. It is also concerned with the role of population in cultural change.
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Paleodemography
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Primarily concerned with the study of skeletal remains to estimate population parameters such as fertility rates and mortality rates, population structure, and life expectancy.
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Multiregional hypothesis
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The theory, based primarily on fossils and tools, that Homo erectus, having left Africa, evelved separately in different parts of the Old World, and was not simply replaced by a much later migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa.
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