ANT340H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1.docx
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Issues addressed, questions asked: how theory informs bioarchaelogical research, how/why we study skeletons and past populations, how we interpret results and reach conclusions. Identify & understand the 3 levels of theory & the osteological paradox. 1: ethics and human sr (skeletal remains, perception of death and how to identify & interpret, sub-adult research, age, sex and their interpretation, taphonomy and the burial environments, paleopathology, disability, and compassion, paleodemographic. Theory and ethics writing and critical analysis. Test on everything (lab, lecture, guest lecture, film) Research based on online documentation: analyses, interpretations, specific question that needs to be answered. Provides info on new grad programs, field schools, jobs. She determined it as a problem-oriented interdisciplinary research in mortuary archaeology and human osteology. Insight into cultural behaviours that work & do not work: population found ways to affectively address: Stressors: study the past to inform the present / future.
