From field to laboratory, ethics, excavating, sampling, recording, analysing, restoring, documenting (photos).
Anatomical background to the human dentition, terms of Dental Anthropology, histology of dental tissues and morphology, different types of teeth.
Cleaning teeth, recording, and documenting (Photo) Identification of isolated teeth
Integrating palaeontology, the dental roots of the human story from modern and fossil teeth
Investigating both destructive and non-destructive approaches for estimating age at death and sex using dental remains, considering reliability and selecting methods based on the context of osteological assemblages and anthropological research
How to estimate the biological profile from teeth, apply the methods seen previously.
indicators of oral health, stress-related growth disturbances, dental pathology, pathogen, dental defects resulted from diseases, macroscopic and microscopic inspections, micro and macro dental wear patterns, isotopic analyses, molecular methods for diet.
Examining metric and non-metric dental traits, evaluating inter- and intra-observer errors, employing isotope analysis, and utilizing biomolecular methods such as DNA analysis.
How to perform a dental analysis (indicators of Health and Stress)
dental deformation through time across the world, trauma, artificial teeth, cultural habits
Work in groups to critically evaluate recent articles in the academic literature of Dental Anthropology
How to sample teeth for further analysis ( Field & laboratory)