85202 - Bioarchaeology

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student, through a theoretichal and practical approach, will know how to deal with the biological remains from an archaeological excavation. He/She will be able to analyze the botanical and faunal remains in order to understand the relationship between people and the environment during the past. The student, at the end of the course, acquires specific skills about the methodologies for the integrated reconstruction of the subsistence strategies and resource use.

Course contents

• Theory and methods in Bioarchaeology
• Quaternary Chronology
• Exploitation of Plants and Animals during the past
• Archaeothanatology: The Archaeology of death
  
• Domestication

Readings/Bibliography

J. DE GROSSI MAZZORIN, Archeozoologia, Laterza 2009

A. GIROD, Appunti di Archeomalacologia, All'Insegna del Giglio, 2015

G. DI PASQUALE, Che cos'è l'archeobotanica, Carocci 2011

H. DUDAY, Lezioni di Archeotanatologia, Roma 2006

Teaching methods

The course is based on lectures dealing with the program topics.

Assessment methods

The evaluation consists of an oral exam on the course program. The student must show that he/she has acquired adequate general and systematic knowledge of the various topics and has mastered the scientific and methodological tools necessary for a reasoned analysis of the program subjects.

Gradation of the final grade

A very thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with high skills of critical analysis, ability to use specific archaeological terminology will be evaluated with the maximum score (30-30 cum laude).

A thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with good analytical and critical skills, proficiency of specific archeological terminology will be evaluated with good marks (27-29).

Relatively adequate preparation and sufficient analytical skills, even if not particularly articulated, expressed in correct language, will produce fair evaluations (23-26).

Sufficient preparation and analytical skills, expressed in barely formally correct language, will determine the sufficiency (18-22)

Teaching tools

Lectures will be illustrated with powerpoint presentations.

Students who are affected by learning disability (DSA) and in need of special strategies to compensate it, are kindly requested to contact the Teacher, in order to be referred to the colleagues in charge and get proper advice and instructions.

Office hours

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