- Department: Archaeology
- Module co-ordinator: Ms. Malin Holst
- Credit value: 5 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
- See module specification for other years: 2022-23
This module will provide students with foundations in human anatomy, through identification of bones and teeth and techniques of ageing and sexing. You will be learning by using skeletons from archaeological contexts to gain genuine hands-on experience.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2021-22 |
B | Autumn Term 2021-22 |
Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
This practical course will give you an introduction to the key basic skills required to analyse human skeletal remains. Initially, you will learn to identify human bones and lay out a skeleton in the correct anatomical position. This will be followed by a series of further practicals in which you will apply the main osteological techniques that are used to estimate age and sex in adult and age in non-adult human skeletons.
This module will provide a strong basis for further advanced osteological analysis, such as assessing pathologies, stature, metric and non-metric traits; these topics will be covered in the second human bone skills module.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Practical Practical Examination |
N/A | 100 |
Pass/fail
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Practical Practical Examination |
N/A | 100 |
Feedback will be available within 4 weeks
Schaefer, M., Black, S. & Scheuer, L. (2009). Juvenile Osteology: a Laboratory and Field Manual (Amsterdam)
White, T.D. 2005. The Human Bone Manual (Amsterdam)