Dr. Daegling A practical survey of the human skeleton for aspiring bioarchaeologists, forensic anthropologists and paleoanthropologists. Emphasis is on developing techniques for the identification of human remains, including methods for establishing a biological profile from skeletal remains. This course provides hands-on experience with complete and fragmentary human remains, and includes a basic introduction to skeletal […]
Dr. Prieto One of the major challenges in the academic life of graduate students is dealing with the fieldwork for a master/doctoral dissertation project. This is more difficult when the work has to be done overseas in different countries with foreign languages and cultures. This course is designed to explore how we should design a […]
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Dr. Gravlee Anthropology encompasses a dizzying array of substantive areas and theoretical approaches. But no matter your interests, you share at least one thing in common with every other graduate student (in anthropology and beyond): the desire to conduct meaningful research. That means you must master research design. This seminar focuses on elements of research […]
Dr. Davidson Archaeology is the study of the past –people and everything they were, their public acts and private hopes –or at least it is an earnest attempt to “construct” this past through a meticulous examination of material objects, the greater landscape, and the social milieu under which these men, women, and children lived and […]
Dr. Ostebo This course offers anthropological perspectives on global public health. Students will be introduced to various global health challenges and problems, and to the initiatives and approaches that have been undertaken to address them. This includes a focus on the main actors and institutions that constitute the field of global health and on the […]
Dr. Brandt Field Sessions in Archaeology is designed to expose those students in the SP 20 UF in Ethiopia program to the methods archaeologists use to conduct archaeological fieldwork in general and the Southwest Ethiopian Archaeological Project in particular. During the first three weeks I will also be discussing on an ad hoc basis, the […]
Dr. Brandt The main objective of African Archaeological Analysis is to provide students in the 2020 UF in Ethiopia program with the methods that will be used to analyze flaked stone artifacts (lithics) and to a lesser extent ochre and pottery recovered from this season’s excavations at Mochena Borago, Ethiopia. The first three weeks (1/7-1/24) […]
Dr. Oyeula-Caycedo The objective of this course is to create a solid foundation in the study of the theories and methods in historical ecology today. This will be accomplished by evaluating the new trends that have driven historical ecology in the last ten years. This new approach demands an interdisciplinary view. The first part of […]
Dr. Oyuela-Caycedo This class is an introduction to the study of the social life of plants. Biologists can reconstruct the genetic relationships of plants and their diversity as well as the process leading toward genetic modifications. Anthropologists and archaeologists are able to provide the hard evidence on how, where, and when these processes of domestication […]
Dr. LeFebvre and Dr. Wallis Why study the archaeology of Florida? If you have ever wondered what life was like hundreds or thousands of years ago in the places we call home, this is your opportunity to find out. Most of Florida’s human past is knowable only through archaeological evidence. Luckily, there is no shortage […]