Courses / Module

• Learn skills for the excavation of human remains (in a controlled environment).
• The consideration when handling human remains, focusing on ethical protocol.
• Understand skeletal analysis techniques, including human and comparative osteology, determining sex, approximate age at death, living stature, identifying palaeopathological conditions etc.
• Understand how each of the other learning outcomes relate to forensic analysis and forensic cases.

• The teaching and learning methods used will be appropriate to an on-site field school, namely supervised laboratory work, excavation in a controlled environment, workshops on ethical protocols and processes when handling human remains, forensic analysis, skeletal analysis techniques etc.

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): In total, 60% of the available marks will be allocated during continuous assessment while students are onsite. The remaining 40% will be assessed by examination of a 1,500-2,000-word paper. Participation in teamwork and discussions is required, as is completion of a skeletal recording pack.

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? No
• NOT AVAILABLE FOR AUTUMN RESITS

Institute of Archaeologists Ireland. 2006. Code of Conduct for the Treatment of Human Remains in the context of an archaeological excavation.

Available online: http://www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/et/98.pdf

National Museum of Ireland: Policy on Human Remains. 2006.

Available online: http://www.museum.ie/NationalMuseumIreland/media/Corporate-Information/Policies%20and%20Guidelines/Policy-Human-Remains-Final.pdf

Note: A full reading list is provided once enrolled on the course.

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