Introduction to Human Osteology

1 Course Unit

This course introduces students to the human skeleton as a biological and sociocultural product of lived experience. Main objectives of this course include: 1) learning to identify all 206 bones in the adult human skeleton at their various stages of development; 2) learning to identify skeletal landmarks associated with muscle attachment; and 3) learning the major muscle groups associated with shoulder, elbow, hip and knee joints. Students will also explore historical, methodological and theoretical developments in bioanthropology that help us to understand how empirical observation of the skeleton is a social process. Finally, students will be introduced to the process of constructing biological profiles based on skeletal and documentary analysis, including age-at- death, sex, and pathological conditions. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: ANTH 5244 1 Course Unit