Paleodemographics

Pre-requisites: To have passed the examination in Physical Anthropology during their basic academic studies.

Course objectives: To introduce students to archaeological problems that can be answered using paleodemographic analysis.

Course description: Defining archaeological problems which have been answered using paleodemographic analysis. Students will learn how to create data bases for paleodemographic analysis as well as how to independently do them.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and written examination.

Literature/Reading:

• Paleodemography : age distributions from skeletal samples / edited by Robert D. Hoppa, James W. Vaupel. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.