Paleopathology
Normal bone tissue and normal bone alterations and the impact of various disease processes on skeletal tissue. Students will be taught to assess and interpret patterns of human disease in processual rather than typological terms.
Prerequisites: BIOL 251 and ANTH 326 or BIOL 326.
Outcomes: Students will have command of biological anthropological approaches towards the understanding of human disease and will be familiar with theoretical issues germane to the field of paleopathology, biases and ethical issues, and the role that disease has played throughout human history.
Prerequisites: BIOL 251 and ANTH 326 or BIOL 326.
Outcomes: Students will have command of biological anthropological approaches towards the understanding of human disease and will be familiar with theoretical issues germane to the field of paleopathology, biases and ethical issues, and the role that disease has played throughout human history.