- 10 Mar, 2021
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dentition
For this assignment, you will be reading an article about ancient dentition (teeth).
Once you have read the content, in one full paragraph, tell me (in three sentences minimum) one specific thing that you learned from the article. In your second paragraph, tell me some specific information that you would have liked to have seen discussed further in the article (in three sentences minimum). Then, choose 2 vocabulary words from chapter 9 notes and 3 vocabulary words from chapter 10 notes (5 words total).
Explain each of these vocabulary words in an anthropological way (defining each term in your own words, not directly from the notes) in relationship to the article. Each vocabulary word should be defined in one sentence and each relationship in another sentence. Make sure each of your examples comes directly from the article on ancient teeth only!
Your assignment should be typed, spell-checked, written in full sentences, and should be turned in for full credit on July 26th by 8am. This is worth 50 points.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-teeth-reveal-social-stratification-dates-back-to-bronze-age-societies/
Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societies
Humans have a history of status division stretching back at least 4,000 years
By Bret Stetka on October 11, 2019
In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire. The second-class plebeians worked the farms, baked the bread and built the walls. The rest of the workforce—a full third of the Roman population—were slaves.
Human history is, sadly, entwined with inequality. Most early civilizations, the Sumerians, Egyptians and Harappans among them, had social classes—strata of inequity that left some better positioned than others. Yet it has long been assumed that prior to the Athenian and Roman empires,—which arose nearly 2,500 and more than 2,000 years ago, respectively—human social structure was relatively straightforward: you had those who were in power and those who were not. A study published Thursday in Science suggests it was not that simple. As far back as 4,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Bronze Age and long before Julius Caesar presided over the Forum, human families of varying status levels had quite intimate relationships. Elites lived together with those of lower social classes and women who migrated in from outside communities. It appears early human societies operated in a complex, class-based system that propagated through generations.
By analyzing the DNA of more than 100 ancient skeletons from a burial site near Augsburg, Germany, the researchers determined the sex and relatedness of individuals buried together on single farmsteads. They were members of Central European farming communities that spanned from the late Neolithic period through the Bronze Age—or from around 2800 B.C. through 1300 B.C. Related individuals, the study’s authors found, were laid to rest with goods and belongings that appeared to be passed down through generations. The unrelated people in the household were buried with nothing, suggesting they were a lower class of “family members,” who were not given the ceremonial treatment.