Teaching plan for the course unit

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General information

 

Course unit name: Osteology and Forensic Anthropology

Course unit code: 568580

Academic year: 2021-2022

Coordinator: Araceli Rosa de la Cruz

Department: Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences

Credits: 2,5

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 62.5

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

20
 

-  Laboratory session

Face-to-face

  

18
 

-  Seminar

Face-to-face

  

2

Supervised project

14.5

Independent learning

28

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

Students who successfully complete the course will be able to do the following:

— Describe the macroscopic and microscopic structure of the human skeletal system (bones and teeth).

— Identify stages of skeletal development over the course of a lifespan.

— Describe human skeletal variability at the level of populations.

— Discuss comparative osteology in the context of studies of human evolution, osteoarchaeology and forensic anthropology.

— Construct biological profiles of skeletal remains (age, sex, height, ancestry).

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Practicals (18 hours)

*  1. Osteology
2. Identifying traits: the decedent’s age at death, sex, stature and ancestry
3. Population variability and paleopathology
4. Practical exercise in biological profiling of skeletal remains (teacher-evaluated)

2. Seminars (2 hours)

*  Seminar on dental morphology
 

Note that the total completion of this content may be subject to official COVID-19 restrictions.