Bones, bodies and burials: osteology and comparative anatomy

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identification of the different elements of the human and animal skeletons

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• knowledge of how molecular studies can be used to gain information on human and animal migrations, diet, and population history
• Writing of technical animal bone reports
• Analysis of a faunal assemblages as a source of understanding of past environments, subsistence practices, craft, and trade

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• understand the reasons for the skeletal variability between taxa
• knowledge of the typical body plan of a mammal skeleton
• Understanding of the processes that affect the preservation and recovery of human and animal remains from archaeological sites

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Clear and concise written presentation of a topic
• Analysis of quantitative data

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.