Learning Outcomes

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.

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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.