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AY5905: OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY DISSERTATION (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 10:58


Course Overview

To provide you with the opportunity to demonstrate that you are able to complete a substantial and original piece of research on a specialist topic within human osteoarchaeology you will produce an analytical osteoarchaeological project that includes necessary analysis, laboratory work and 12,000 words.

 

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Third Term Credit Points 60 credits (30 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Rebecca Crozier

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

In completing their research project report students will be expected to demonstrate that they can both carry out independent analytical work on a human skeletal collection and conduct library research reviews situating their research question in its wider archaeological, methodological, theoretical and ethnical context.  This work will contain a written component as well as all necessary illustrations, tables and records of analysis needed to make a successful archaeological analysis.

 

All students will receive staff supervision in identifying a suitable topic and in completing their original research project. A major source of archaeological human skeletal collections used for student projects will be the holdings of the the Marischal Museum at the University of Aberdeen. The museum holds extensive archaeological human skeletal collections from a range of regions and periods, including a large collection from the major medieval towns of eastern Scotland.

 

Your research project will be presented as part of the archaeology post-graduate mini-conference or similar venue during your time in Aberdeen.

 


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Project Report/Dissertation

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 90
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Dissertation presentation and master's student mini-conference

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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralEvaluateCritically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of other research relevant to the field.
ProceduralApplyUnderstand the overall research process, define problems and design overall research strategies.
ReflectionCreateDevelop experience at bringing personal initiative to the conducting of research on a specialist topic in osteoarchaeology.
ProceduralApplyCommunicate research findings to a high standard of written and visual information.

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