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ANT 2100 Mehta Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass 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...

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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


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.




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, 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


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 human skeletons. Although its width varies among populations,

narrow notches indicate a male and wider notches indicate a female.




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