Field anthropology. 3 Weeks

Professor

1-6 August 2022
8-13 August 2022
15-20 August 2022
22-27 August 2022

Students can register for one, two, three or four weeks, to choose between the 4 weeks of the excavation, depending on their interest in the topics covered in each of the weekly sections.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

First Week. 1-6 August 2022

The theoretical classes will be focused on the knowledge of Physical and Field Anthropology, with special attention to Funerary Archaeology and everything necessary to carry out a good excavation of human skeletal remains.

This is not just another "pay to excavate" proposal. It is a practical and theoretical course, directed by university professors, with specific themes in each of the four weeks, aimed at those who want to delve into the practical excavation of a necropolis and the analysis of human skeletal remains.

Second and Third Week.

8-13 August 2022
15-20 August 2022

The second and third weeks will focus on Palaeopathology, with theoretical classes in the afternoons, but with an eminent practical load in the form of cases studied by the course lecturers. There will also be classes related to Forensic Anthropology and Criminalistics, taught by university professors who are part of our teaching staff.

Fourth Week.
22-27 August 2022

In the fourth week, classes will be devoted to the study of the processes of Egyptian Mummification and the Palaeopathology of Mummies, with the knowledge gathered by the course lecturers during their 20 years of experience in international projects in Egypt.

Students who choose the one-week mode will select the one they consider most interesting according to the theme of each weekly section.

The chosen week will be specified on the registration form.

EXCAVATION SITE

Cemetery of the Hospital de San Salvador (15th-19th c.), Buitrago del Lozoya, Madrid (Spain)

The VIII Practical Course on Physical Anthropology, organised by OsteoResearch, Renoarchaeology and the City Council of Buitrago del Lozoya (Madrid), will be held from 1 to 28 August 2022. The excavation will take place in the old cemetery of the Hospital San Salvador (Hospital de pobres), with a chronology from the 15th to the 19th century. The course has an eminently practical character, designed to carry out all the activities related to Physical Anthropology at an archaeological site, complemented with laboratory practice and theoretical teaching.

TEACHERS

The teachers of the course are university teaching professionals with proven experience in the field of Physical Anthropology, Archaeology and Palaeopathology.

Dr. Jesús Herrerín López, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
Dr. Enrique Dorado. Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Dr. Esperanza Gutierrez-Redomero. Professor at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

TEACHING

Mornings: practical work at the archaeological site from 8 am to 2 pm, under the supervision of the teachers.

Afternoons: practical and theoretical classes will take place in the laboratory, with specific themes each week.

Working days: Monday to Saturday. Free day and optional excursions every Sunday.

The maximum number of students will be 14. Admission will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Students may reserve their participation in the course at any time from December 2021, with a registration and place reservation fee of 100 euros.

ACCOMMODATION:

Municipal Hostel (rooms with two single beds).

The costs of education, maintenance, accommodation and medical insurance are included in the price and will be borne by the Organisation.

The cost of transport to Buitrago del Lozoya at the beginning and end of the course is NOT included in the price.

The students will stay at the Hostal Municipal de Buitrago, three hundred metres from the excavation site and in the village of Buitrago, an important tourist enclave in the Community of Madrid.

DISCOUNT

Price 950€ : 10% discount on registration before 1 February 2022. (855€)

Characteristics of the course

Conferences 0
Questionnaires 0
Duration 20 days
Skill level All levels
Students 14
Evaluations Yes

JESÚS HERRERÍN

DOCTOR IN BIOLOGY. PROFESSOR AT THE UAM AND UAH.

Honorary Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH).

D. in 2001 in Biological Sciences.

Graduate in Biological Sciences (1985) and Bachelor's Degree with honours (1986); PhD in Physical Anthropology with honours cum laude (2001) by unanimous decision of the examining board. All from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Research Award from the Diputación de Soria. Research Grant from Caja Segovia.

Author of several books in Spanish and English, and of more than 60 scientific articles in national and international journals on Physical Anthropology and Palaeopathology.

He has directed more than 50 Final Degree, Bachelor's and Master's Degree Projects at the UAM and UAH.

He has supervised 3 doctoral theses presented in September 2017. All three obtained the qualification of Outstanding cum laude by unanimous decision of the examining board. He is currently supervising three theses in the field of Anthropology and Palaeopathology.
She is part of several research projects in Egypt, such as those of tomb TT34 (tomb of Momtenhat (TT34); funded by the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia in collaboration with the SEK University of Segovia and the University of Tubingen, Germany); tomb TT16 (funded by the University of Memphis, USA and the Mont Sinai School); the tombs TT11 and TT12 within the Djehuty Project (funded by the CSIC and sponsoring companies); Project TT209 (University of La Laguna, Tenerife); Kom-el-Kamasin Project, in Saqqara, Egypt (University of Barcelona); excavation project of the tombs TT25 and TT28 (funded by the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt) and of the tomb TT367 (funded by the Ministry of Antiquities of Egypt). All of them from 2008 to the present.
She is part of the team working on the El Caño Archaeological Project, in Penonomé, Panama, as head of the Anthropology and Palaeopathology area, from the 2015 campaign to the present.

He has participated, and continues to participate, in more than 40 research projects on the excavation of Necropolis of different chronology in the Iberian Peninsula, as head of the area of Physical Anthropology and Palaeopathology.

Visiting Professor at the University of Padova (Italy), teaching postgraduate courses at the Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, from 2016/17 to present.

Member of the Spanish Association of Anthropology and Forensic Odontology, the Spanish Society of Palaeopathology and the Spanish Society of Physical Anthropology.

Features

To know the different contexts in which human bones can be found and excavated.
To know the current legal framework for the treatment of human bones and funerary rituals in different cultures.
To understand the role of the archaeologist and the physical anthropologist from field excavation to laboratory study.
To know the main parameters for a correct anthropological and palaeopathological report on a burial site.
Understand the use of tools applicable to anthropological study, both in the field and in the laboratory.
To understand the influence of taphonomy on the state of conservation of bone remains.
To learn and broaden knowledge of palaeopathology from a theoretical and practical point of view, led by specialist lecturers.
To understand the different processes of natural mummification in different archaeological contexts.
To deepen the knowledge of the process of Mummification in Ancient Egypt, based on the latest knowledge and the most modern research techniques, carried out by the teachers of the course.

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