Print syllabus(in Polish) obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology
General data
| Course ID: | 2800-AOWBIO-1 |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: |
08.4
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| Course title: | (unknown) |
| Name in Polish: | obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology |
| Organizational unit: | Faculty of Archeology |
| Course groups: |
Obligatory classes for MA second-cycle English-language studies Obligatory workshops for Ist year paths for MA program |
| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
3.00
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| Language: | English |
| Type of course: | obligatory courses |
| Mode: | Classroom |
| Short description: |
Complete course of Basic Osteology 1. Conservation of humans remains 2. Differentiation between human and animal bones 3. Description of state of preservation 4. Estimation of age at death 5. Estimation of sex of individuals 6. Description of non-metric traits on the skull and postcranial skeleton 7. Bones measurements 8. Description of epidemiology and pathology 9. Description of taphonomy lesions 10. Description of teeth inventory |
| Full description: |
The main goal of the workshops to gain practical abilities in conducting laboratory analysis of human remains, focusing on methods of sex and age assessment (these methods are described during the course of Advance Human Osteology). Students will gain basic skills in filling up the protocol for skeletal inventory, sex and age estimation, bone measurements, non-metric traits and epidemiology. The course prepares students for conducting osteological analysis of human remains from archaeological excavations. |
| Bibliography: |
Literature: Bass W.M., Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual, Missouri 1995 Brothwell D.R., Digging up bones, New York 1982 Jaskulska E., Tablice osteologiczne. Skrypt dla studentów, Warszawa 2012 Scheuer L ., Schaefer M., Black S., Juvenile Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual, Academic Press 2009 White T.D., Folkens P.A., Osteology, San Diego 2000 San Diego 2000 |
| Learning outcomes: |
Student know: -how to fill up protocol of osteological inventory -methods of sex and age estimation -how to take measurements of the bones -how to describe bone lesions -how to described non metrics traits Student can: -describe skeleton preservation -estimate sex and age of individual -measure human bones -describe bone lesions -describe non metrics traits Student competence: -osteological analysis of human remains -application of anthropological methods -time management -independent work |
| Assessment methods and assessment criteria: |
Graded credit. |
Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)
| Time span: | 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16 |
 
MO TU W WAR
TH FR |
| Type of class: |
Workshops, 30 hours, 15 places
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| Coordinators: | Aleksandra Grzegorska, Elżbieta Jaskulska | |
| Group instructors: | Aleksandra Grzegorska, Elżbieta Jaskulska | |
| Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
| Examination: | Grading |
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