FF:AEB_A16a Archaeozoology - Course Information
AEB_A16a Archaeozoology
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- RNDr. Miriam Nývltová Fišáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- RNDr. Miriam Nývltová Fišáková, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 14:00–15:40 M12, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
- Prerequisites
- It is good for the subject to complete Bi5125 Anthropology for Archaeologists but is not a prerequisite.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 37/30, only registered: 2/30 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
- to understand the basic methods of archaeozoology (i.e. to learn about the anatomical positions of bones, species determination of bones, age determination based on teeth abrasion and postcranial skeleton, etc.) and to learn about activities connected with documentation and excavation of animal skeletons at archaeological localities;
- to become familiar with new methods of palaeogenetics, stable isotopes analysis which is important for the detection of origin, migration, diet, physiology, evolution comparative physiology and reconstruction of palaeoenvironment;
- to apply the results practically, in order to reconstruct the lifestyle of prehistoric people in most of its probabilities. - Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- recognize the basic species of domestic and wild animals based on osteological and odontological materials
- know how to excavate osteological material so as to extract as much information as possible
- know which basic quantification methods are used in zooarchaeology and how they are used with archaeological interpretations
- know the most up-to-date methods of skeletal material analysis and their use and problems
- know how to use all of these methods for the reconstruction of life in the past - Syllabus
- 1. History.
- 2. Methods of fieldwork and laboratory work with osteological material.
- 3. Basic anatomical concepts.
- 4. Skull and teeth anatomy of Pleistocene and Holocene animals.
- 5. Postcranial skeletons anatomy of Pleistocene and Holocene animals.
- 6. Main differences between construction of human or animal skull and postcranial skeleton.
- 7. Archaeozoological analysis.
- 8. Osteometry.
- 9. Sex determination in animals and humans.
- 10. Age determination in animals and humans.
- 11. Palaeogenetics.
- 12. Application of stable isotope analysis in order to reconstruct migrations, diet and palaeoecology of animals and humans. 13. Physiology and evolutionary comparative physiology
- 14. Palaeopathology.
- 15. Taphonomy.
- 16. Palaeoecology.
- 17. Reconstruction of human or animal appearance.
- Literature
- required literature
- ROČEK, Zbyněk. Historie obratlovců : evoluce, fylogeneze, systém. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2002, 511 s. ISBN 8020008586. info
- KOMÁREK, Vladimír, Oldřich ŠTĚRBA and Oldřich FEJFAR. Anatomie a embryologie volně žijících přežvýkavců. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2001, 449 s. ISBN 8071698539. info
- Koldův atlas veterinární anatomie. Edited by Vladimír Komárek, Illustrated by Pavel Dvorský - Viera Postníková. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 1999, 701 s. ISBN 8071693529. info
- ŠPINAR, Zdeněk Vlastimil. Paleontologie obratlovců. Illustrated by Zdeněk Burian. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1984, 859 s. URL info
- recommended literature
- Čihák, R. 2001: Anatomie 1, Praha.
- Reitz, E. J., Wing, E. S. 1999: Zooarchaeology, Cambridge.
- The Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology. Edited by Umberto Albarella - Mauro Rizzetto - Hannah Russ - Kim Vickers - Sarah. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xxii, 839. ISBN 9780199686476. info
- NETTER, Frank H. Anatomický atlas člověka. Edited by John T. Hansen, Translated by Libor Páč - Petr Dubový. Vyd. 2., rozš. Praha: Grada, 2005, [14], 542. ISBN 8024711532. info
- Antropologie : příručka pro studium kostry. Edited by Milan Stloukal. 1. vyd. Praha: Národní muzeum, 1999, 510 s. ISBN 8070361018. info
- SCHMID, Elisbeth. Atlas of animal bones : for prehistorians, archaeologists and quaternary geologists : Knochenatlas : für Prähistoriker, Archäologen und Quartärgeologen (Souběž.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1972, 0-444-4083. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Successful written test and practical determination of osteological material.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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