ANT441H5

Advanced Bioarchaeology

This course will combine theory learned in ANT340H5, Osteological Theory and Methods, with bioarchaeological methods to teach students how to conduct and interpret an osteobiography of human skeletal remains. Lectures and labs will cover techniques of sex determination, age estimation, stature calculation, evaluating health and nutrition, assessing markers of occupational stress, osteometrics, biological distance studies, and paleodemography.