Biological profile evaluation
1
2018-2019
02004645
Biology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
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)
NoSyllabus
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)
Cláudia Isabel Soares Umbelino
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