Zooarchaeology

Question 0

How do archaeofaunas differ from paleontological assemblages

Answer 0

Because humans could have a hand in archaeofauna findings.

Question 1

What is an archaeofauna?

Answer 1

Something that consists of the animal bones recovered from an archaeological site.

Question 2

The two major archaeological contexts that animal bones turn up in

Answer 2

At a kill or butchering site or in camps and villages

Question 3

What do archaeologists do after recovering a archaeofauna site

Answer 3

A faunal analysis done by a zoo archaeologist

Question 4

Who found the agate basin site

Answer 4

William spencer

Question 5

What was found at the agate basin site

Answer 5

Spear points and bison bones

Question 6

What is the element in faunal analysis

Answer 6

A specific skeletal part of the body for example a humerus

Question 7

What is taxon

Answer 7

The classification of skeletal element to a taxonomic category like a species

Question 8

How many animal size classes are there

Answer 8

Rodent/rabbit size, wolf/antelope size, mule/deer/bighorn sheep size, bison/elk size, giraffe/hippos/elephant size

Question 9

What is comparative collections

Answer 9

A skeletal collection of modern fauna of both sexes and different ages to identify archaeofauna

Question 10

What is a way to tell different taxons were deposited by humans

Answer 10

If bones bear stone tool cut marks, if they were burned, impact fractures,

Question 11

What does NISP stand for

Answer 11

Number of identified specimens

Question 12

What does NISP count

Answer 12

The total number of bones from one category found

Question 13

What does MNI stand for

Answer 13

Minimum number of individuals

Question 14

What is an axial skeleton

Answer 14

The head, mandible, vertebrae, ribs, sacrum and tail or the animal

Question 15

What is an appendicular skeleton

Answer 15

All parts of the animal excluding the axial skeleton

Question 16

What did they find at the keatley Creek site

Answer 16

Many fish bones from three different species of salmon

Question 17

What did analyzing seven vertebrae at keatley Creek show a strong correlation between

Answer 17

The correlation between house size and age distribution of salmon species

Question 18

What did dongya yang Camilla speller and brain Hayden do

Answer 18

Do used ancient salmon DNA from Keatley Creek to test it’s different species of salmon were used by different social hierarchies

Question 19

How was dongya yang contributions important

Answer 19

It contributed to how archaeofaunas are used in archaeology to help piece together what the society was like at the time

Question 20

What is the Paleoethnobotanist

Answer 20

An archaeologist who specializes in recovering and identifying plant remains from ancient contexts focusing on the world of plant people interactions

Question 21

What are macro botanical remains

Answer 21

Readily recognizable plant parts

Question 22

How are part remains preserved

Answer 22

By being burned or carbonized or preserves in waterlogged contexts, sun-dried adobe bricks, waddle and daub walls, and ceramics.

Question 23

What are coprolites

Answer 23

Desiccated feces often containing macro botanical remains such as: pollen.

Question 24

What is Palynology

Answer 24

A technique through which the fossil pollen grains and spores from archaeological sitesare studied

Question 25

What is one important method of learning about plants in ancient sites

Answer 25

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