Paleopathology of Human Populations
1
2020-2021
02004853
Biology
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
The student should have knowledge about human anatomy and biological profile analysis in human skeletons.
Teaching Methods
Presentation of the theoretical framework followed by observation and description of practical cases.
Learning Outcomes
To provide tools for research, descripytion and interpretation of pathological lesions in skeletons from identified collections and from prehistoric and historic excavations.
Develop a critical understanding of the available evidence, using a biocultural approach, to the reconstruction of health and diseases of past human populations.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
Human paleopathology: primary and secondary evidence. Methods and analysis techniques.
The relevance of differential diagnosis. Assessment and significance of osteoperiostite.
Theoretical context and practical observation of pathology: infectious, traumatic, congenital, metabolic, endocrine, neoplastic, degenerative joint, among others conditions. Observationa and record of entheseal changes. Indicators of stress: linear hypoplasia of dental enamel, orbitalia cribra, porotic hyperostosis and Harris lines.
The taphonomy and the pseudopathology.
Head Lecturer(s)
Ana Luísa da Conceição dos Santos
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 25.0%
Exam: 75.0%
Bibliography
Barnes, E. 1994. Developmental defects of the axial skeleton in paleopathology. Colorado: University Press of
Colorado.
Brickley, M.; Ives, R. 2009. The bioarcheology of metabolic bone diseases. Oxford: Academic Press.
Grauer, A. 2012. A companion of paleopathology. Chichester, West Sussex, Malden, MA, Wiley – Blackwell.
Ortner, D. 2003. Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains. San Diego, Academic Press.
Roberts, C.; Manchester, K. 2005. The archaeology of disease. 3rd edition. London: Sutton Publishing.
Waldron T. 2009. Palaeopathology. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.