Course description
This course aims to provide students with the opportunity to
apply their medical knowledge to archaeological and/or ethnographic human
remains from the University collections. This is a challenging perspective as
you will be dealing with skeletal remains with no associated medical records.
A number of projects will be made available prior the week before the course begins. Further context for these projects and the frameworks we use in archaeology will be outlined in the initial seminar. You will then have the flexibility to select one of the available projects in the first week (e.g. trauma, arthritis, bioarchaeology of care, infectious disease). Under the guidance of the course coordinator, you will subsequently develop an approach to addressing your chosen topic, ultimately generating a report on your findings. Some of the projects will involve the analysis of actual ancient skeletal remains, others may focus on datasets. There will be an opportunity in Week 4 to report your initial progress to the rest of the group. You will submit your final report at the end of Week 6.
This course is capped at 8 studentsCourse coordinator Dr Rebecca Crozier
rebecca.crozier@abdn.ac.uk