Bi6124 Laboratory practice in historical anthropology I

Faculty of Science
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kristýna Brzobohatá, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Eva Drozdová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Jan Šmarda, CSc.
Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Eva Drozdová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Aim of the course to make students familar with working with human skeletal material after its excavation on archaeological site and before anthropological evaluation. After attending this course the students will be able to clean, reconstruct, describe and store the human skeletal material. For the students it is one of the first possibilities to come in contact with the skeletal material.
Syllabus
  • The students work in laboratory with human historical skeletal material. They will work individual with given skeletal material. It will be cleaned, reconstruct and marked by tags of archaeological site and prepared for storage.
Literature
  • BASS, William M. Human osteology : a laboratory and field manual. 5th ed. Columbia, Mo.: Missouri Archaeological Society, 2005, xviii, 365. ISBN 9780943414966. info
  • WHITE, T. D. and Pieter A. FOLKENS. The human bone manual. Boston: Elsevier Academic, 2005, xx, 464. ISBN 0120884674. URL info
Teaching methods
Intensive laboratory course
Assessment methods
fullfilling the requirements
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, autumn 2017, spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2014, recent)
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