00062M - PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

courses
ID:
00062M
Duration (hours):
42
CFU:
6
SSD:
ANTROPOLOGIA
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
CULTURAL HERITAGE/Archeologia Year: 3
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 31/01/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


The course aims to provide the theoretical and methodological knowledge of physical anthropology applicable in the archaeological field, and necessary for the purpose of the enhancement and conservation of human remains, ascribable to cultural heritage. The student will acquire knowledge on the biological and cultural history of the anatomically modern man and on the biunivocal correlations between biological adaptations and cultural choices.In addition, the student will acquire the necessary skills able to give him a basic operational capacity in the field, about excavation and cataloguing of skeletal human remains.

Course Prerequisites


None

Teaching Methods


Frontal lectures and practical exercises on human casts at the Operative Unit of Anthropology.

Assessment Methods


The exam will consist of an oral test accompanied by a practical test that may consist of estimating sex and age at the death of a skeletal individual (cast) or compiling an anthropological form. The exam is considered passed if the student reaches the minimum grade of 18/30.

Texts


Study texts:
1) A. CANCI, S. MINOZZI, Archaeology of human remains. Carocci, Rome, 2005.
2) One text to choose from:
- F. MALLEGNI, The Way We Were. LTU Guarguaglini, Pisa, 2001.- B. WOOD, Human Evolution. Codice Edizioni, Turin, 2008.- G. MANZI, Human Evolution. Hominids and Men Before Homo Sapiens. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007.- G. MANZI, The Great Story of Human Evolution. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013.- G. BIONDI, O. RICKARDS, Men for Six Million Years. Carocci, Rome, 2017.
Materials handed out in class.

Contents


The course deal with the main topics related to Paleoanthropology and Physical Anthropology. The course is divided into three parts. The paleoanthropological collections represent a great cultural heritage; the chronological, geographical and cultural classification of the paleoanthropological findings constitutes, therefore, the theme of the first part of the course, which illustrates the main stages of human evolution. The second part focuses on the founding principles of physical anthropology, understood as a study of the variability of anthropological characters linked to the passage of time, age and sexual dimorphism. These themes constitute the prelude to the third part of the course which will provide the basic knowledge and skills to face an anthropological excavation in archaeological contexts.

Course Language


Italian

More information


Students reception: before and after lessons

Degrees

Degrees

CULTURAL HERITAGE 
Bachelor’s Degree
3 years
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