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| What came from Chavin and how |
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| llama meat came from the highlands in the form of CHARKI which is freeze dried meat Jerky |
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Life history from skeletons
Squating would be on what bones and would indicate |
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| ankle and knee and Women maize grinding |
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| auditory exstotis is what and indicates what |
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| bony growth in inner ear indicated men fishing=swimmers ear |
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| How many mounds were at moundville |
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| rappaport model: ultimate sacred proposition |
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| unverifiable beliefs that have to e accepted on faith |
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| ultimate sacred propositions are experienced through ritual so that people believe religion |
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| a cultures understanding of how world works, place of humans in natural and supernatural world |
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| rituals attempt to create a ______experience meaning |
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| numinous: experience you might feel in church , believing in miracles, etc |
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| what might have contributed to the numinous experience |
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| to access the supernatural world, done in trances, drugs, fasting etc |
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La Florida:
before the european arrival |
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more corn, less fish, lack niacin (amino acids), more tooth decay (startch/sugards from maize)
more retzius lines and tibial peiostosis |
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| elite game, politically and religiously importance |
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| 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 |
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Tomb of King Midas
techniques used? |
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| infrared spectroscopy, liquid and gas chromatography |
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| Ancient Mayas used it ...drink |
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JARMO (iraq)
evidence for farming? |
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stone sickle blades
experimental archaeology edgewear "silica polish" |
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| indications of intensive farming |
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| more erosion, increase sediment eleposition in lake |
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| what is a carbon isotope ratio |
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| carbon taken up by plants during photosynthesis, incorperated into plant tissues |
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| plants discriminate against fruits, nutes, veges, legumes, tubers, wheat, rice |
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| plants take in 13C in same ratio as air, corn millet sorhum |
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| As plants are eaten by animals, ratio |
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| passed along and fixes in C of bone tissue |
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| theoretical framework does four things |
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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 |
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