Biological profile evaluation

Recommended Prerequisites

Human osteology.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes and practical classes with human identified remains.

Learning Outcomes

This unit aims to give the fundamental tools to allow the students to do a correct  evaluation of the biological profile on the basis of skeletal remians.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Human osteology: the skull; the appendicular skeleton; the axial skeleton

Evaluation of the biological profile:

sex diagnosis; age atd eath estimation: adults and sub adults

stature and morphology

ancestry.

Head Lecturer(s)

Eugénia Maria Guedes Pinto Antunes da Cunha

Assessment Methods

Assessment
report on two skeletons (adult and non-adult): 100.0%

Bibliography

Scheuer, L.; Black,S. 2000. Developmental Juvenile Osteology. London. Academic Press.

 White,T. 2011. Human Osteology. Academic Press.

 Bruzek, J. 2002. A method for visual determination of sex, using the human hip bone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 117: 157-168.

 Buikstra, J.; Ubelaker, D. 1994. Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains. Proceedings of a Seminar at the Filed Museum of Natural History. Fayetteville, Arkansas (Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series; 44).

 Murail, P.; Bruzek, J.; Houet, F.; Cunha, E. 2005. DSP: a tool for probabilistic sex diagnosis using worldwide variability in hip-bone measurements. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, 17 (3-4): 167-176.

 Silva, A. M. 1995. Sex assessment using the calcaneus and talus. Antropologia Portuguesa, 13: 107-119.

 Wasterlain, S. 2000. Morphé: análise das proporções entre os membros. Dimorfismo sexual e estatura de uma amostra da colecção de esqueletos identif