obligatory workshop I: Bioarchaeology

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

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.

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

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

Graded credit.