- Department: Archaeology
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
This module will explore a range of themes around disease and health in archaeology, such as the rise and fall of pandemics, food shortages and the impact of urbanisation. Taking a global perspective, the module will focus on case studies from the Palaeolithic to the 19th century. By critically examining archaeological evidence, such as material culture, documentary sources and bioarchaeology, students will acquire a rich understanding of past disease and gain new perspectives on how archaeology can contribute to health challenges in the present day.
A directed option - students must pick a Special Topic module and have a choice of which to take
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
Special Topics focus upon the archaeology of a well defined time, space or theme and the modules seek to allow students, in small groups, to focus upon primary source material and to apply to it the theoretical and thematic perspectives learned over your first and second years. The aim is to facilitate the acquisition of deeper knowledge of one aspect of the past than has been possible in more general courses.
Specifically this module aims:
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
None
Task | % of module mark |
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Oral presentation/seminar/exam | 100 |
Formative: written feedback from module leaders in class
Summative: written feedback within the University's turnaround policy
Gamble, L.H. et al. (2021) ‘Finding Archaeological Relevance during a Pandemic and What Comes After’, American antiquity, 86(1), pp. 2–22.
Grauer, A. L and Buikstra, J. E. (2019). ‘Chapter 3: Themes in Palaeopathology’, in Buikstra, J.E. (ed), Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. Elsevier Science & Technology, ProQuest Ebook Central, pp: 21-33
Johnson, S. (2006) The ghost map : the story of London’s most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world. New York: Riverhead Books.