Bi8352 Anthropological methods II

Faculty of Science
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martin Čuta, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tomáš Mořkovský (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Petra Urbanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Malina, DrSc.
Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D.
Timetable
Tue 12:00–14:50 Bp1
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Bi7351 Anthropological methods
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objective of the course is to introduce to students the basic method of evaluating an anthropological find; to methods of evaluation of body type (somatotype), nutritional status and body composition in living human; to work with software and programs evaluating population traits in an anthropological find; advanced methods -2D, 3D digitalization, geometric morphometrics, shape variability. At the end of the course the student should be able to assess in the anthropological find - sex; age at death estimation; body height; population affinity; should be able to use for these purposes specialized software and programs; take advantage of advanced methods; in living human determine nutritional status; body type (somatotype); body composition.
Syllabus
  • 1. Methods of determining biological origin of an anthropological find
  • 2. Methods of estimation age at death on human skeleton
  • 3. Methods of estimating biological age in living man
  • 4. Methods of assessing sex on human skeleton - morphoscopical, morphometric methods, combined methods, discrimination models
  • 5. Methods of determining population affinity in human skeleton
  • 6. Typology and interpopulation variability in living human.
  • 7. Methods of estimating body height and proportions of man from skeletal find - regression models
  • 8. Methods of estimating body height and proportions of living man - somatotypes.
  • 9. Methods for evaluating human body composition
  • 10. Photodocumentation, work with graphical software, virtual anthropology, 3D modelling
  • 11. FORDISC 3.0, COLIPR - work with programs for sex assessment and population affinity estimation on human skeleton; MicroScribe digitizer
  • 12. Basics of geometric morphometrics and multivariate statistics; work with programs for study of shape variability (Statistica, TPS, Morphologica)
Literature
  • WHITE, T. D. and Pieter A. FOLKENS. The human bone manual. Boston: Elsevier Academic, 2005, xx, 464. ISBN 0120884674. URL info
  • TANNER, J. M. Assessment of skeletal maturity and prediction of adult height :(TW3 Method). 3rd ed. London: Saunders, 2001, vi, 110 s. ISBN 0-7020-2511-9. info
  • Antropologie :příručka pro studium kostry. Edited by Milan Stloukal. 1. vyd. Praha: Národní muzeum, 1999, 510 s. ISBN 80-7036-101-8. info
  • BOOKSTEIN, Fred L. Morphometric tools for landmark data : geometry and biology. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xvii, 435. ISBN 0521383854. info
  • KNUSSMANN, Rainer. Vergleichenden Biologie des Menschen : Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2. bearb. Aufl. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1996, xii, 524. ISBN 382740763X. info
  • SOKAL, Robert R. and James F. ROHLF. Biometry :the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 3rd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1995, xix, 887 s. ISBN 0-7167-2411-1. info
  • CARTER, J. E. L. and Barbara Honeyman HEATH. Somatotyping - development and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 1990, xiv, 503. ISBN 0521351170. info
  • FETTER, Vojtěch. Antropologie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1967, 704 s. info
Assessment methods
The credit is awarded based on 90% presence (1-2 absences tolerated), protocols elaborated on content of each lab class, final test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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