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Lecturer(s)
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Kovačiková Lenka, Ing. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Content of lectures: Introduction to the archaeozoology (animal remains from the archaeological sites) Human-animal relationship in the past reconstructed on the basis of osteological data Structure of the bones and teeth, taxonomic identification, anatomy Taphonomic analyses Osteometry, age and sex data and their information potential Quantification of the bone animal remains Palaeopathology Prehistoric archaeozoology (agriculture, hunting, subsistence strategies, the spread of domestic animals) Medieval archaeozoology (animals in the urban and rural sites, animal imports) New methods in archaeozoology (e.g. stable isotopic analysis) Content of practicals: The laboratory works on archaeological and referential material. Training archaeozoological techniques and methods.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Demonstration, Laboratory
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Learning outcomes
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Archaeozoology is one of discipline of environmental archaeology which studies the animal remains particularly their bones and teeth from archaeological sites. These remains may contribute to feature the relation between animals and human in the past e.g. nutritional uses of animals, breeding manners and exploitation of animals, hunting strategies, position of animals in social affiliation and belief systems, modifications on the skeleton due to process of domestication etc. The goal of the course is to acquaint with the ways of identification of the osteological assemblages, methodology of collecting of data, their analysis and interpretations. Archaeozoology comprises a range of research orientations and outputs, some of them will be talking over
The students are going to learn the basics of the archeozoology including its methodology. They will be able to understand the summaries of published data, to orientate in the topics of this bioarchaeological discipline and to think over the possibilities which it offers. They are going to check up theoretically acquired knowledge on reference and archaeological osteological material.
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Prerequisites
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The course introduces to the given issue and does not expect the specific input knowledge.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Essay
The assessment is awarded for participation in the practicals and for the deposition of an essay. The essay deals with some of the current archaeozoological topics and extends the knowledge acquired in the lectures and the practicals.
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Recommended literature
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Albarella, U., Rizzetto, M., Russ, H., Vickers, K., Viner-Daniels, S (eds.). Oxford handbook of zooarchaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017.
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Davis, S.J.M. The archaeology of animals.. BT Batsford, London, 1987.
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Lyman, R.L. Quantitative palaeozoology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
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Lyman, R.L. Vertebrate taphonomy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
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O´Connor, T. The archaeology of animal bones. Sutton, Stroud, 2000.
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Reitz, E.J. and Wing, E.S. Zooarchaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
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