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Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Subtitles in Spanish
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Syllabus
- Week 1 - Introduction to the course
Hello and welcome to this course, Osteoarchaeology, the Truth in Our Bones. In this first, introductory module, you will learn about what this course is about and how it is set up. Watch the first three lectures to learn more about what Osteoarchaeology is, an... - Week 1 - Bones to Biography & Demography
Welcome to the first content module of this course! This week is all about introducing you to the primary things that we can learn from nearly all human skeletons. Who are the people who lived in the past? Are they men, women or children? How old did they beco... - Week 2 - Bones to Disease and Trauma
Welcome to the second module! This week is all about disease in the past. How healthy were people really, and what diseases did they suffer from? We will show you how to answer these questions by studying the diseases that can be detected in human skeletal re... - Week 3 - Bones to Diet
Welcome to the third module! This week is all about diet in the past. What did people eat in the past and in what proportions? Did different groups of people eat different things, and did their diet change throughout time? This week we will show you how to an... - Week 4 - Bones to Activity
Welcome to module four! This week is all about activity. What activities did people perform in the past? How did they move about, and how much? We will be answering these questions by studying many different aspects of the skeleton, like long bones, joints, ... - Week 5 - Bones to Mobility and Migration
Welcome to the last module of this course! This week is all about mobility and migration, so people moving through the landscape. How much did people relocate, and where did they go? We can answer these questions by looking at the shape of longbones, and by s...
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Andrea Waters-Rist
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Archaeology
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