Biological profile evaluation

Recommended Prerequisites

Human skeleton.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical and pratical classes with identified and unidentified human skeletal remains.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit aims to train the student with the fundamental knowledge to assess the biological profile of an individual (sex, age, ancestry and stature) based on their skeletal remains.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Biological profile assessment through the human skeleton: sex, age, stature and ancestry. Methods and anatomical areas preferred for the estimation of each of the parameters. Differences between an assessment of the biological profile in the immature skeleton and the adult skeleton. Demographic characterization of past populations. How to make an identity exclusion based on the biological profile. The biological profile assessment report.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Teresa dos Santos Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Other: 50.0%

Bibliography

- Buikstra J, Ubelaker D. 1994. Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains. Proceedings of a Seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series no.44. Fatteville. Arkansas Archaeological Survey.

- DiGangi EA, Moore MK (eds). 2013. Research methods in human skeletal biology. Oxford. Academic Press.

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