Details Title: Archeology Description: Into to archaeology Total Flash Cards: 25 Created: 12/06/2008 09:24:54		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Anthropology Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term What came from Chavin and how Definition llama meat came from the highlands in the form of CHARKI which is freeze dried meat Jerky Term Life history from skeletons Squating would be on what bones and would indicate Definition ankle and knee and Women maize grinding Term auditory exstotis is what and indicates what Definition bony growth in inner ear indicated men fishing=swimmers ear Term How many mounds were at moundville Definition 20 large mounds Term rappaport model: ultimate sacred proposition Definition unverifiable beliefs that have to e accepted on faith Term rapapport model... Definition ultimate sacred propositions are experienced through ritual so that people believe religion Term cosmology Definition a cultures understanding of how world works, place of humans in natural and supernatural world Term rituals attempt to create a ______experience meaning Definition numinous: experience you might feel in church , believing in miracles, etc Term what might have contributed to the numinous experience Definition blood letting Term role of shamans Definition to access the supernatural world, done in trances, drugs, fasting etc Term La Florida: before the european arrival Definition more corn, less fish, lack niacin (amino acids), more tooth decay (startch/sugards from maize) more retzius lines and tibial peiostosis Term sweat houses use Definition ritual purification Term chunky Definition elite game, politically and religiously importance Term caprolites Definition residue analysis Term phytoliths Definition spaces between cells in plants: variety in shapes, silica bodies that form between cells of plants, not all plants produce, distinctive shapes for diff species Term Tomb of King Midas techniques used? Definition infrared spectroscopy, liquid and gas chromatography Term Cocao Definition Ancient Mayas used it ...drink Term JARMO (iraq) evidence for farming? Definition stone sickle blades experimental archaeology edgewear "silica polish" Term indications of intensive farming Definition more erosion, increase sediment eleposition in lake Term what is a carbon isotope ratio Definition carbon taken up by plants during photosynthesis, incorperated into plant tissues Term C-3 Definition plants discriminate against fruits, nutes, veges, legumes, tubers, wheat, rice Term C-4 Definition plants take in 13C in same ratio as air, corn millet sorhum Term As plants are eaten by animals, ratio Definition passed along and fixes in C of bone tissue Term theoretical framework does four things Definition related religion to other aspects of culture, focus on how relision is practives, makes possible redictive hypotheses focus on role of relision in society, not actual content of religion Term Definition