Reading reports........10 %; | Laboratory Exercises........20 % |
Participation..............10%; | Papers................20 %; |
Midterm Exam (03/23)........20 % | Final Exam (TBA)........20% |
week | dates | topic | readings | assignments, exams |
1 | 1/28 | Introduction: Bioarchaeology and a subfield | ||
2 3 | 2/2 2/4 |
Human skeleton, an overview Using skeletal remains to estimate sex and age at death |
Human skeleton Anatomical planes White and Folkens 2005 |
Reading Report 1 |
4 5 | 2/9 2/11 |
Sex and age assessment of juveniles Laboratory exercise 1: sex and age |
Lewis 2007 Estimateing Age Reconstructing Sex Walker and Cook 1998 |
Reading Report 2 |
6 | 2/16 2/18 |
Sex vs. gender, accuracy and precision of estimating age No class, Monday schedule |
Eng et al. 2009 | Reading Report 3 |
7 8 | 2/23 2/25 |
Paleodemography and life-tables Dental anthropology: introduction, oral pathology |
Buikstra et al. 1986 Hillson 1979 |
Lab 1 is due (2/25) |
9 10 | 3/2 3/4 | Oral health in Pre-industrial communities "Teeth as tools" - types and patterns of dental wear Laboratory Exercise 2: Oral Health |
Littleton and Frohlich 1993 Eshed et al. 2006 Lukacs and Pastor 1988 El-Zaatari 2010 |
Reading Report 4 Reading Report 5 |
11 12 | 3/9 3/11 | Effects of sex and age on oral health
Discussion: Did Neanderthals use their teeth as tools? |
Lukacs and Lagaespada 2006 Independent literature search |
Reading Report 6 paper 1 is due on 3/11 |
13 14 | 3/16 3/18 |
Reconstructing diet from the chemical analysis of human remains; stable isotope vs. trace element analysis Stable isotope analysis; Review |
Larsen 1997, Ch 8 Tykot et al. 2006 Pechenkina et al. 2005 |
Lab 2 is due (3/16) |
15 | 3/23 3/25 |
MIDTERM EXAM Biomechanical analysis of archaeological human skeletons |
Ruff 2000; Larsen 1997, Ch 5 |
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3/30-4/1 Spring Recess |
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16 17 | 4/6 4/8 |
Activity patterns: articular and muscular adaptations Activity induced traumas; Activity vs. violence |
Bridges 1995; Merbs 1983 Lovell 1997; Standen and Arriaza 2000 |
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18 19 |
4/13 4/15 |
Laboratory exercise 3: activity, trauma, ageing Patterns of violence around the world - discussion |
Hershkovitz et al. 1996 Tayles 2003 Larsen 1997, Ch 4 | Discussion (4/15) |
20 21 | 4/20 4/22 |
Was cannibalism common in the pre-contact Americas?
Artificial body modifications |
Independent literature search Clark et al. 2007 | paper 2 is due on 4/20 |
22 23 | 4/27 4/29 |
Artificial body modifications, cntd. Biological distances, group structure |
Levy 1966: Ch. 1, 8 Stojanowski 2006; Del Papa and Perez 2007 |
Lab 3 is due on 4/27 |
24 25 | 5/4 5/6 |
Recognizing disease from human remains The individual in archaeological context |
Mulbern 2009 Pechenkina and Delgado 2006; Robb et al. 2001 | Lab exercise 4 |
26 27 | 5/11 5/13 |
Social status and health, continued. Review | Cannon 2006 | |
FINAL EXAMINATION : TBA |