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- 006 Dig in the Roman City of Sanisera
- 008 Digging Anthropology in the Sanisera Necropolis
- 010 Digging remains and Biological Anthropology in Sanisera
- 018 Advanced Osteological Analysis in the Roman Necropolis of Sanisera
- 050 GIS, AutoCAD & Digital Illustration in archaeology
- 053 Bioarchaeological fieldwork of an underground funerary crypt of the San Mateo Church
- 060 Lidar, photogrammetry, GIS & Claude AI to discover archaeological sites in the Pyrenees (Spain)
- 061 Archaeological Tour in Egypt: Giza, Saqqara, Luxor and a Nile cruise to Aswan
- 062 Zooarchaeology: classifying the domestic fauna of the Roman port of Sanisera, Menorca, Spain
- 063 Reconstruction of the ancient harbours of Menorca: GIS, LIDAR, bathymetry and underwater archaeology
- 064 Dig the Spanish Civil War & the medieval town of Belchite, Spain
018: Advanced Osteological Analysis in the Roman Necropolis of Sanisera (Menorca – Spain)
Learning Outcomes
In the Fieldwork
Funerary practices at the Sanisera site.
- Taphonomic factors affecting survival of skeletal material.
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.
