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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lectures 1. Bioarcheological model (bones, teeth - behavior - environment) 2. Activity reconstructions 3. Health and illnesses in the past 4. Trauma - accidents, violence, and first surgical interventions 5. Class exam 1 6. Cultural modification of hard tissues - esthetics of the past 7. --- 8. Students' presentations 9. Diet in the past 10. Ancestry, kinship, biodistances 11. Students' presentations Seminars 1. History of bioarcheology - context for its development 2. Racial paradigm and craniometry 3. Rise of bioarcheology 4. Rise of interdisciplinarity in bioarcheology 5. Students's presentations 6. Repatriation of skeletal collections - a new challenge for bioarcheology 7. Students's presentations
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Self-study of literature, Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 65 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 30 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 45 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 16 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize at an advanced level and explain the concepts of human osteology, arthrology and general human biology |
| to characterize and describe theoretical methods of archeology |
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| to understand and interpret professional text in the Czech language |
| to critically assess and discuss a professional text in English |
| to present formally research and conduct professional debates |
| to lead a discussion on professional study |
| to master the basics of statistics |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to characterize and describe the biocultural model |
| to characterize and describe the historical development of biological anthropology and thought trends |
| to describe and explain changes in the skeleton and teeth caused by specific and non-specific external influences and behavior |
| to interpret these skeletal changes in the context of population-specific statistics |
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| to interpret independently knowledge from various areas of life of past populations: archeology, paleozoology and paleobotany, biological anthropology |
| to analyze critically studies to find research gaps |
| to create a professional text according to the principles of the structure of the professional text and the language of professional studies |
| to indetify practically traces of activity, disease or injury in individual topics at the LBA osteological collection |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| Self-study of literature |
| Textual studies |
| One-to-One tutorial |
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| Seminar |
| Self-study of literature |
| Textual studies |
| Skills demonstration |
| One-to-One tutorial |
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| Lecture |
| Seminar |
| One-to-One tutorial |
| Skills demonstration |
| Textual studies |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Skills |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Competences |
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| Combined exam |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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Beneš, Jaromír,; Pokorný, Petr. Bioarcheologie v České republice. V Českých Budějovicích : Jihočeská univerzita, Přírodovědecká fakulta, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7394-026-3.
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Buikstra, Jane E.; Beck, Lane A. Bioarchaeology : the contextual analysis of human remains. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2006. ISBN 0-12-369541-4.
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Goodman, A. H. a G. J. Armelagos. Infant and childhood morbidity and mortality risks in archaeological populations. World Archaeology 21 (2): 225-243. 1989.
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Larsen, C. S. Biological changes in human populations with agriculture. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:185-213. 1995.
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Larsen, C. S., M. C. Griffin, et al. Frontiers of Contact: bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida. Journal of World Prehistory 15 (1):69-123. 2001.
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Larsen, Clark Spencer. Bioarchaeology : interpreting behavior from the human skeleton. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-521-65834-9.
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Sládek, V., Berner, M., Sailer, R. Bioarcheologické výzkumy lokomočního chování pravěkých populací člověka. In: I. Budil a M. Ulrychová (eds.) Antropologické symposium II, str. 301-310. Pelhřimov, Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2003.
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Weiss, E. Bioarchaeological Science: What we have learned from human skeletal remains.. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009.
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