This biannual course is taught on years 2014-2015, 2016-2017, ...
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The physical and palaeo-anthropology section of the course discusses problematic issues relative to human remains from the archeological sites.
The aim is to give to archeologists the necessary knowledge to manage and to interpret human remains in collaboration with anthropologist.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Oral theoretical and practical examination.
Introduction to the differentiation of types of burials and to the analysis of the state and position of bones in order to understand funeral practices and provide information on the living practices of populations in the past.
Conservative methods, description and measures of human's skeleton pieces will be descripted in theory and in practice. On this base, the interpretation of the results will be considerate to understand the characters retains in divers environments and climates. The human evolution will be explained to show the cognitive new abilities recognized in the archeological material and deduced from some emerging characters.
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