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Advanced seminar
WiSe 21/22: Taphonomy in Time and Space
Maaike Groot
Information for students
Veranstaltung hybrid oder falls nicht möglich nur online.
Additional information / Pre-requisites
Lecture and seminar will be held together in one session.
Comments
Practical details: This is a joint course together with Prof Rivka Rabinovich from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The course will be taught in English and participants are expected to work together with students from the HUJI. Places are limited to 10 students from each university. We will have 10 live sessions and at the end of the semester (March/April), one group will visit the other (not yet decided whether the visit will take place in Berlin or Jerusalem). For the travelling students, flights and accommodation will be paid for by the university. During the visit, students will work together on assignments. There will also be time for sightseeing. This course offers a unique opportunity to connect to students in a different country.
Contents: In this advanced course in archaeozoology, we will explore the field of taphonomy – dealing with “post-mortem, pre-burial and post-burial histories of animal remains” (Lyman 1987). The effect of taphonomy on archaeological animal bone assemblages is often underestimated, and yet taphonomy plays a major role in shaping our primary research material: species present and ratios between species, frequencies of different skeletal elements and age data. We will present and then discuss the major taphonomic agents and processes. We will pay special attention to how taphonomy may affect assemblages of different chronological and geographical origin – and discover whether this is caused by cultural differences.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2021-10-20 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-10-27 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-11-03 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-11-10 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-11-17 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-11-24 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-12-01 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-12-08 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2021-12-15 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-01-05 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-01-12 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-01-19 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-01-26 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-02-02 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-02-09 16:00 - 18:00
Wed, 2022-02-16 16:00 - 18:00