ANTH 5244 is also offered in Spring 2025
ANTH 5244 is also offered in Spring 2024
ANTH 5244 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | ANTH 5244 Section 001: Interpreting Ancient Bone (66241)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Exclude fr or soph 5000 level courses
- Meets With:
ANTH 8244 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 318
- Enrollment Status:
Open (14 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- To Interpret Ancient Bone we must sharpen observational skills, read about observations and analysis by previous workers, and learn to record and analyze complex information. The class combines seminar/discussion formats, in which we read literature about how to best accomplish this type of research, and laboratory time, to give students the opportunity to observe and record modifications to bones that form the basis of archaeological and forensic observations. Students analyze different kinds of tool marks on bone, weathering, carnivore modifications, eco-morphology, ages of death, bone tools, and bones from archaeological sites to infer the "life history" of a bone. We recommend you take the Human Skeleton or Zooarchaeology Laboratory before you take this class, but it is not absolutely required.
- Class Description:
- Newly revamped course covers techniques for reconstructing the past, now enhanced with laboratory observations and research. Includes sections on: Taphonomy of Hominins: Australopiths to Homo sapiens, Cutmark and other bone modification analysis, King Richard III: what was he really like?, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Distinguishing sites created by different carnivore species, Mammoth hunting, Pleistocene Extinctions: Overkill or Rapid Climate Change? and Domestication of Mammals.
- Grading:
- 25% Reports/Papers
25% Special Projects
50% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Papers and site reports will be presented to the class.
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
60% Discussion
20% Laboratory
- Workload:
- 50 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Special Project(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66241/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 December 2016
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