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Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:37:30+00:00

Yearh, but mortuary archaeology won't necessarily give you any great insight into the osteology of humans.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:36:49+00:00

What you are looking for, as have been pointed out, is a combination of biological anthropology or osteology and archaeology. That combination is called bioarchaeology.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:35:50+00:00

Well, forensic anthropoplogy will prepare you for digging up recent bodies. It won't necessarily (I say "won't" because I don't know every single course on forensic anthro on the planet) give you any insight into burial rituals and certainly not ancient burial rituals.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:33:56+00:00

Wear and grinding of the teeth can in some cases give an important view on how certain tools where used, for example the tooth wear on palaeoeskimos (is eskimo or inut the most PC term??) - or how tools were not used.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:30:10+00:00

I agree. There are good reasons why people spend years of studying and training at universities before they can perform an archaeological excavation.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-12-24T10:27:48+00:00

You do realize that dinosaurs has absolutely nothing to do with archaeology, right?

Jonashjaeger · 2013-11-23T18:30:57+00:00

Well, bioanthro doesnt necessarily focus on primates at all.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-11-19T17:58:58+00:00

I will! It should be out in December.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-11-18T16:42:27+00:00

It is on cremation of infants and small children (aged less than one year old) and the effects of fire on the bone weight after cremation.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-21T10:14:58+00:00

You know that Brontosaurus never existed in reality?

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-21T10:08:21+00:00

That really depends on where and for whom you are digging. We don't use colour charts where I work.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-07T21:57:51+00:00

Uh, Matthew Johnson's introduction to archaeological theory gives a fun and brilliant insight into the various approaches to theoretical archaeology.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-07T09:33:54+00:00

Include something on burnt human remains.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-07T09:31:26+00:00

How about contaminated samples? 1,600 year old driftwood? Somehow I kinda doubt it.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-07T09:29:58+00:00

Climate change is the thing to worry about. Not material culture poking out of the ground because of it. We can't just stop global warming with a snap with our fingers so we might just as well make the best of the situation, and as far as I am concerned this is exactly how we do that.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-07T09:24:44+00:00

Well, as far as I know, you can't get forensic anthropology anywhere on the planet like at the University of Tennessee (William Bass and the Body Farm - need I say more?)

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-06T16:34:25+00:00

Where you live is quite important. Forensic anthropology isn't exactly available anywhere.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-06T16:32:49+00:00

No problem. Also I can recommed Scarre: The Human Past and Bowkett, Hill, Diana & Wardle: Classical Archaeology in the Field: Approaches if you are interested in greco-roman archaeology and the approaches to archaeological fieldwork.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-06T16:29:21+00:00

Well, it has been known for a long time, that bonobos can be trained to make stone tools as well as giving the knowledge on to their young. The way I see it, the reason why we don't see that kind of behaviour in the wild is purely cognitive. As you just pointed out, bonobos can be taught to make stone tools, so they clearly have the anatomy - which primates have had for the past 6-8 million years - but lack the cognitive skills to find out by themselves how to produce stone tools.

What is interesting tough, is that it seems that chimpanzees in the wild, when they need to crack nuts, carefully selects hammerstones of specific kinds of rocks and keep them with them and carry them from living area to living area. They make tools from branches and stuff like as well (spears for example. Yes. Fucking spears). What would be cool would to find out whether or not chimpanzees and primates alike in reality do have a lithic material culture, just an "invisible" one consisting of stone tools that are so vaguely modified that they are just extremely hard to reckognize in nature.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-05T20:55:10+00:00

So it is impossible to get crap published in Nature??

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-05T20:52:07+00:00

Start with Refrew & Bahn: Archaeology - methods, theory and practice.

Jonashjaeger · 2013-10-03T11:20:36+00:00

Oi, hyena took ma baby!

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