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 |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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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 |
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