052: Bioarchaeology of child burials from the underground funeral crypt of the San Telmo Church
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
