Abstract: Since the earliest days of archaeology, people have been fascinated by human skeletons recovered from ancient sites. However, skeletal remains are more than a physical bridge between the present and a romanticized past – they also encode valuable information about demography, gender differences, social identities and the daily lives of past peoples. Bioarchaeology is the study of human skeletal material from archaeological sites, and in this course students will identify the ways that bioarchaeologists use data collected from skeletal remains...
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