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Sep 26, 2024
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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 instructor approval. ANTH 3510 is also recommended.
Credits: 3 hours
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