ANT Forensic Arc.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Archaeological methods used for systematic recovery of burial remains and artifacts of the burial | Forensic Archaeology |
| buried soon after death, relatively articulated, most common type of burial | Primary burial |
| Buried decomposed, disarticulated, a jumble of bones in a burial pit | Secondary burial |
| Egalitarian society=doesn't matter the location of burial or position of body | Anasazi |
| Items of cultural significance that are buried with the body i.e. ceramics, tools, weapons, jewelery | Grave goods |
| Development, mediaeval and earlier burials are anonymous, good source of understanding ritual behavior and beliefs. We learn the health and physique of a population, age, sex, and death, diseases | Excavate graves |
| Specialist that studies bones from an archaeological site | Osteoarchaeologist |
| size of body, epiphyses in children, tooth development, cranial sutures | Techniques of analysis Age |
| Pelvic size, shape= sciati notch, subpubic angle. Skull=females have rounder eye sockets, males have more rectangular eye sockets, they are more robust, more muscle attachments, sloped forehead, prominent browridge | Techniques of analysis sex |
| Analyze cranial index, measure long bones to extrapolate height. | Techniques of analysis metric |
| Analyze eruption state, pathology, tooth loss, caveties, absesses | Techniques of analysis dental |
| Extra bone plates in the cranium | Wormian bones |
| Growth plate doesn't fuse | Metopism |
| means several | tori |
| study of ancient diseases | Paleopathology |
| congenital disease, athropathies and degenerate, spinal, metabolic and nutrition, infectious, arthritis, fractures and repairs | Identifiable diseases |
| Single or multiple cave burials | paleolithic period |
| cremation | upper paleolithic period |
| ritual with scattering human remains | neolithic period |
| cist burial | bronze period |
| bog bodies | iron period |
| first buried their dead 250,000-40,000 ybp | neanderthals |
| Used first by the people in the upper paleolithic in australia 40 kya | Cremation |
| Period where most bog bodies come from. dated using ground penetrating radar and carbon dating. | Celtic Iron Age |
| Churchyard survey, aerial photographs, field walking, ground penetrating radar | Non-intrusive techniques |
| Trenching, horizontal, individual graves with grave goods, barrows | Excavation techniques |
| Shape and size of grave, burial position, type of grave goods, demographics by bone specialists, file and profile=soil association | Analysis of grave |
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