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Practical Course in Physical Anthropology in Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid

Practical Course on Physical Anthropology in Buitrago

This is not just another "pay to excavate" proposal. It is a practical and theoretical course, directed by a university professor, aimed at those who want to gain practical experience in the excavation of a necropolis and the analysis of human skeletal remains.

OBJECTIVES

  •  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.
  •  To understand the role of the archaeologist and physical anthropologist from field excavation to laboratory study.
  •  To know the main parameters for a correct anthropological and palaeopathological report of a burial.
  •  Understand the use of tools applicable to anthropological study, both in the field and in the laboratory.
  •  To understand the different processes of natural mummification in different archaeological contexts.
    archaeological contexts
  •  To understand the ways in which the composition of the substrate affects the preservation of skeletal remains.
  •  To know the strategy, procedures and means of archaeological excavation of burials, inhumations, cremations and other types of finds of human remains.
  • To know the funerary rituals of different cultures

 

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

The VII Practical Course on Physical Anthropology, organised by OSTEO Research, Renoarchaeology and the Town Council of Butrago del Lozoya (Madrid), will be held from 1 to 29 August 2021. The excavation will take place in the old cemetery of the charity hospital (hospital of the poor) 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.

 

COURSE DIRECTORS

  • Dr. Jesús Herrerín López, Physical Anthropologist, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
  • Dr. Natasa Sarkic, Archaeologist and PhD in Physical Anthropology

 

TEACHERS:

  • Dr. Jesús Herrerín López, Autonomous University of Madrid
  • Dr. Natasa Sarkic, Archaeologist and PhD in Physical Anthropology
  • M.Sc. Victoria Peña Romo, specialist in the analysis of cremations and cremated remains.
  • M.Sc. Sofia Zdral, PhD candidate in Developmental Genetics at the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC).
  • M.Sc. Laura González-Garrido, PhD student at the Department of Physical Anthropology of the University of León.

 

COURSES

  • Basic Course in Physical Anthropology and Funerary Archaeology (6 days / 18 lessons, date: 02. 08. - 07. 08. 2021)
  • Advanced Course in Physical Anthropology (6 days / 18 lessons, date: 09. 08. - 14. 08. 2021)
  • Paleopathology Course (12 days / 24 lessons, date: 16. 08. - 28. 08. 2021)
  • Dental Anthropology Course (6 days / 12 lessons, date: 16. 08. - 21. 08. 2021)
  • Children's Bioarchaeology (6 days / 12 lessons, date: 23. 08. - 28. 08. 2021).

 

It is possible to combine courses. Special discount for enrolment in 2 courses - 20% discount!

Price

One week course: course, full board and insurance - 300 €.

Two-week course: course, full board and insurance - 500 €.

Discount: 10% discount on registration before April 1st.

Accommodation: Hostal Municipal (rooms with two single beds)

http://hostal.ayto-buitragodellozoya.es/

The costs of education, maintenance, accommodation, 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.

 

Teaching:

  • Mornings: practical work at the archaeological site from 8 am to 2 pm.
  • Afternoons: practical and theoretical classes will take place in the laboratory.
  • Working days: Monday to Saturday. Excursions every Sunday.
  • On the last day, each student will show a report of the excavation and present their findings to other students.

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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.

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