Quiz 4 Flashcards
Tracking trade routes
understand how politically complex societies interact with their neighbours
Petrography
a branch of geology that focuses on the identification of minerals and rocks on the basis of their physical properties
Petrographic analysis involves…
- taking a very thin slice from a piece of pottery and polishing it until it is so thin that light can travel through it to find what its made of and where it came from
- applied to the study of diplomatic letters discovered in the New Kingdom Egyptian city of Amarna
Akkadian
- the language of Mesopotamia using cuneiform script
- documents found in Egypt written on clay tablets in Akkadian
- during the New Kingdom cuneiform was used as the medium for diplomatic communication
- unclear info from letters of Kings geological location
Neutron activation analysis
- focuses on the chemical characteristics of the clay itself
- possible to create a profile of the rare elements that are present at very low levels in the clay
- like a chemical fingerprint that can be matched with the fingerprint of known geological clay sources
“Dolphin Vase”
found on the Middle Kingdom Egyptian site of Lisht, back to its place of manufacture near the modern city of Gaza
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS)
a rare element analysis can also be carried out with instrumentation
Neanderthals and modern humans
have a phylogenetic relationship
4,000 year old man
- from Greenland
- entire genome found from single hair recovered on an archaeological site locked in permafrost
King Tutankhamun
- mother and father were siblings
- had malaria
- died bc of Köhler disease II
Marfan syndrome
- produces a feminine physique
- King Tut and his family did not have any evidence of this genetic disorder
Akhenaten (King Tut’s Father)
art style made him look like he had Marfan syndrome but its not a realistic depiction of his physique
