051: Advanced bioarchaeological techniques in the Necropolis of Lucena (Córdoba - Spain)

What you will learn ?

In the Laboratory

• Complete osteological analysis of an individual funerary unit
  
  
• Assessment of disarticulated remains and computation of minimum number of individuals
  
  
• Application of standard techniques of bone measurement, age estimation, sex estimation, classification of dental pathology and tooth wear
  
  
• Identification of fragmentary bones
  
  
• Utilization of anatomical terminology to describe and discuss skeletal elements
  
  
• Recording osteological information on complex forms
  
  
• Recognition of non-metric traits and pathological bone
  
  

Theory

• Development and application of osteological methods
  
  
• Assessment of cremated remains
  
  
• Chemical analyses of human bone – isotopes and DNA
  
  
• Identifying trauma in archaeological bone
  
  
• Challenges in paleodemography and paleoepidemiology
  
  
• Estimating ancestry of human skeletal remains