Teaching plan for the course unit

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General information

 

Course unit name: Taphonomy and Fieldwork in Anthropology

Course unit code: 568589

Academic year: 2021-2022

Coordinator: Araceli Rosa de la Cruz

Department: Faculty of Biology

Credits: 2,5

Single program: S

 

 

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 62.5

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

20
 

-  Field trip

Face-to-face

  

20

Supervised project

20

Independent learning

22.5

 

 

Learning objectives

 

Referring to knowledge

— Use the techniques and conceptual framework of forensic taphonomy and anthropology to correctly interpret human remains in outdoor forensic scenes.

— Identify the procedures required to excavate human remains.

— Explain how taphonomic techniques can be used to gain information about the effects observed in outdoor forensic scenes and the agents that produced them.

— Carry out diagnoses of the biological profile in outdoor forensic scenes.

— Identify features that can indicate death from natural causes and from diseases.

— Gather samples for physicochemical and molecular analyses.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Locating human remains

2. Excavation techniques

3. In situ treatment

4. Selective collection and classification

5. In situ diagnosis

6. Taphonomic assessment


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