300524 VO Archaeozoology 1 (2013W)

Basic pattern of mammalian osteology and odontology; overview of archaeozoological topics and methods: domestication, history of human-animal relationships, bone modification, osteometry, quantification, age-estimation, taphonomy. Identification of skeletal elements of important wild and domestic mammal species using a comparative collection; reassemblage of animal skeletons; identification of different types of bone modifications (e.g. anthropogenic butchery marks, worked bone).