|
Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
| Máster Universitario en Arqueoloxía e Ciencias da Antigüidade |
 Subjects |
| Zooarchaeology |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Zooarchaeology | Code | 710537021 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
|
|||||||||||||
| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Zooarqueology. | Resources and objectives |
| 2. Recovery of faunal remains | 2.1. Which ones, how many and how. 2.2. Types of deposits and sampling. 2.3. Laboratory processing. |
| 3. Taphonomy | 3.1. Biostratinomic and diagenetic processes. 3.2. Natural and cultural agents. |
| 4. Taxonomic, biometric and quantitative analyses | 4.1. Identification: from atlases to comparative collections. 4.2. Biometrics: what to measure. 4.3. Quantification: RN, MNI, MNE, Weight and other indexes. 4.4. Age and sex determination. Size calculation. |
| 5. Molecular analysis | 5.1. Peptide fingerprinting (ZooMS). 5.2. Stable isotopes. 5.3. Ancient DNA. |
| 6. Introdución ás patoloxías óseas | 6. Introduction to bone pathologies |
| 7. Introduction to bone industry | 7.1. Introducción á industria ósea |
|
