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Short Courses

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Human Osteology

Overview

This intensive short course provides participants with a detailed introduction to the human skeleton.

Who Should Attend

This short course is designed for archaeology students or those working in a field to which human osteology is pertinent.

Tuition Fees

• $2898 (incl. GST)

What You Will Study

Participants will learn the range of biological and chemical information that is recorded in the human skeleton, including:

• Introduction to the human skeleton
• The vertebrate skeleton: animal vs. human
• Analysis of human remains: age at death determination
• Analysis of human remains: sex and ancestry determination
• Analysis of human skeletal remains: metric and non-metric
• Analysis of human skeletal remains: paleopathology
• Forensic anthropology and identification from human remains

Assessment

On the final day of the five-day intensive, all participants will undertake a practical quiz.

Learning Outcomes

It is expected that on completion of this short course, participants will have:

• Developed a basic understanding of the structure and function of the human skeleton
• Obtained insight to the methods involved with the location, identification and recovery of human remains occurring in field situations
• Gained an understanding of the methods employed to determine biological age, biological sex, geographic origin, basic pathology, and behavioural attributes from the analysis of human skeletal remains.

Credit

Upon successful completion of this short course, all participants who are not enrolled in a Flinders University program, will receive a Certificate of Achievement which states that this short course is equivalent to completion of the Flinders University topic ARCH8408.

Program Facilitator

This short course will be coordinated by Dr Vito Hernandez, an environmental archaeologist and geoarchaeologist.