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Certification Course

Osteoarchaeology: The Truth in Our Bones

This course focuses on what we can learn from examining human skeletons and how we can use that knowledge to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. Human skeletal remains can provide unique insights into the past and present in archaeology and anthropology, insights that cannot be obtained otherwise.

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In this course, you will :

shown how (archaeological) skeletal remains can be used to estimate age-at-death, gender, and stature
In subsequent modules, it is demonstrated how human bones can provide information about diseases and injuries that people experienced, as well as what they ate.
demonstrated how the human skeleton provides information about the types of activities that people engaged in, as well as how they migrated and moved around their landscapes
Investigate all aspects of the human skeleton that can provide us with information about these various aspects of life.
will delve into the scientific field of human osteoarchaeology.
- - Human, because it is about us and our ancestors,
- - Osteo, because it is about our bones,
- - Archaeology, because we use this information to better understand the behaviors and events experienced by past people.

Syllabus :

1. Bones to Biography & Demography