ANTH 3530 - Bioarchaeology

This course is an issues oriented undergraduate methodology course concerned with the analysis of human remains recovered from archaeological contexts. Topics of discussion include: mortuary practices, age categories and cohorts, assessing growth and development rates, indicators of population health, palaeodemography, palaeopathology, trauma and warfare, occupational indicators, trace elements, and problem solving with metric and/or non-metric variation. The focus of the course will be on extracting information from a human skeletal population in order to reconstruct features such as status differences and the reasons for population increase/decline.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ANTH 2100 and ANTH 2500, or permission of instructor. ANTH 3510 is also recommended.

Credits: 3 hours