062: Zooarchaeology: classifying the domestic fauna of the Roman port of Sanisera, Menorca, Spain
What you will learn ?
In the Laboratory
- Be able to distinguish the major skeletal elements of the major vertebrate taxonomic classes and apply those skills to an archaeological assemblage of faunal remains.
- Understanding of the processes by which zooarchaeologists recover and analyse their data.
- Utilisation of anatomical terminology to describe and discuss skeletal elements.
- Identifying fragmented bones.
- Identifying butchery types in faunal remains.
- Recording zooarchaeological information on complex forms.
Theory
- Understand how the methods used by zooarchaeologists provide context to the Sanisera site through the examination of past and present cultural and funerary practices.
- Create explanatory narratives around the zooarchaeological assemblage you analysed through an interdisciplinary approach.
- Challenges in reconstructing animal husbandry and diet from faunal remains.
