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Later Year Course

Offered By:	School of Archaeology & Anthropology
Academic Career:	Undergraduate
Course Subject:	Archaeology
Offered in:	ARCH2054 will not be offered in 2010
Unit Value:	6 units
Course Description:	Archaeology of Death uses burial practices, mortuary goods and biological remains to reconstruct the lives of the dead as well as, if not more importantly, the lives of those that buried them. This course has a global orientation that will explore ideas associated with death and the treatment of the dead from individuals to communities using archaeological evidence recovered from many parts of the world. The temporal expanse of this course extends from the middle Pleistocene evidence for para-human cannibalism, to prehistoric clues suggesting human sacrifice and mutilation of the dead, and finally onto the complex burial ritual associated with historically recent tuberculosis victims thought to be the victims of vampirism.
Indicative Assessment:	Tutorial presentation (15%),  2,000 word essay (50%) and short test (35%).
Workload:	2 hours of lectures and one hour of tutorial per week
Areas of Interest:	Archaeology
Requisite Statement:	One first year course to the value of 6 units in Archaeology (ARCH or PREH) or permission of the lecturer
Majors/Specialisations:	Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Health, Medicine and Body, and Archaeology Practice
Academic Contact:	Dr Marc Oxenham