Palaeopathology in Context

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• pose and tackle archaeological questions using skeletal and pathological data
• undertake palaeopathological analyses and the methods for differential diagnosis of skeletal disorders and pathology
• integrate theoretical issues and archaeological questions with empirical data derived from bioarchaeology
• pose and tackle archaeological questions using skeletal data
• use skeletal remains as a resource for studying past variability in heath and disease, but also in diet and subsistence, social structure and organisation, speciation and extinction, ideology and religious belief, and population history and migration
• critique specific techniques and methods of palaeopathological analysis

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate awareness of ethical issues regarding aspects of disease
• undertake analysis and presentation of skeletal data including differential diagnoses (suitable for publication)

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the critique of data and the interpretations derived from such data
• the ethical issues surrounding working with human remains who experienced disease processes
• the varying theoretical approaches to the analysis of human skeletal (and especially pathological) remains
• the evaluation of results of analyses and studies

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.