AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (anth 213 ppl) Flashcards

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Carl Linné

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  • first to classify living
    • divided into 6 races
      • based on geo origins, phys traits
      • racist determinism - race defines everything
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Samuel George Morton

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  • measured cranial capacity/volume
    • if you have a big skull you’re more intelligent, racist
    • ignored natural variability in skulls
    • he only studied skulls that fit his theory → unscientific → sampling bias
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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

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  • classified humans using head measurement, skin and hair type
    • 5 “races”
      - “caucasian, mongolian,
      american, ethiopian et malayan”
    • father of phys anth
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P. Broca

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  • measures cranial capacity and believes if you have big brain = more intelligent and capable
    • brachycephalic - short, not all poc have this and some white ppl have this, contrary to what broca wanted to believe
    • dolichocephalic - long skull, more perfect
  • influenced phrenology
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Franz Boas

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  • cranial morphology is influenced by social/phys enviro
    • body shape is influenced by enviro, social and bio factors
    • challenged sci racism
    • boasian anthro - founded by boas, what ppl study in north america
      • anthro = archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnology, ling, etc.
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R.W Schufeldt

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  • studied only bird bones trauma
    • paleopathology (shufeldt): all diseased/pathological condition
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M.A Ruffer

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  • bacteriologist and hygienist who worked worked at cairo mummies
    • paleopathology (ruffer) - disease sci demonstrated in human and animal remains from ancient times
      • science - independent discipline
      • disease - retrospective diagnosis
      • the use of the word demonstrated means that the disease aint extinct
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B. O’Connor

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  • irish physician who wanted to prove human spine had fused bones
    • true scientist → lesion description, functional interpretation, diagnosis
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E.A Hooton

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  • first study at populational level
    paleoepidemiological approach - links chronological and frequency of variation of disease → demographical and epidemiological pov
    • reference collection was important
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J.L Angel

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  • father of modern paleopathology
    • 4 scopes of paleopathology:
      • semiology/signs = important
      • health state relation w past society
      • relation between demography and health
      • nutrition and growth → bc paleopathology isnt just abt infectious disease or aging diseases, there’s also other factors
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W. Röntgen

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german physicist who lowkey accidentally discovered x-rays, first phys nobel prize haver

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J.A Bergonié

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  • father of radiobio, first to use it to heal
    • how xrays work → paleoimaging
      • heats filaments to create and speed up e-
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A.M Cormack and G. Hounsfield

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invented computed tomography/ct scans for mummies

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H. Grmek

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  • pathocenosis creator, all orgs coexist in biotope
    • extinction and appearance of species = biocenosis changes
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E.N Pavlovsky

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  • nidus aka enviro/climate/conditions for parasites to exist for parasites to exist and r contained
    • enviro where parasites r contained
    • one nidus = pathogens/transmission/niche/host = easily predictable
      • can overlap
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K.J Reinhard

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  • pathoecology aka enviro factors for disease
    • need to be studied for infectious diseases paleoecology
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J. Wood

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  • analyzed osteological lesion frequency thru epidemiology lens → osteologcial paradox: “worst skeleton = best health state”
    • lots of pathological condition freq =/= most common condition
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  • a omran
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  • egyptian american epidemiologist who created epidemiological transition
  • epidemiological transition - when contagious diseases decrease and non contagious diseases increase
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