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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/truthinourbones-osteoarchaeology-archaeology
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课程名称：骨考古学：我们骨骼中的真相 课程概述：本课程探讨通过检查人类骨骼，我们能够了解些什么，以及如何利用这些知识重建过去人类的生活。人类骨骼遗骸在考古学和人类学中提供了独特的洞察力，帮助我们获取其他方式无法获得的信息。课程分为五个主要主题，持续五周学习。首先，课程展示如何通过仔细检查（考古）骨骼遗骸来估计死亡年龄、性别和身高。在后续模块中，课程将展示骨骼如何提供有关人们所患疾病和受伤情况的信息，以及他们的饮食习惯。此外，还将探讨人类骨骼如何揭示人们参与的活动类型，以及他们是如何在景观中迁移和移动的。 在本课程中，您将研究人类骨骼的各个方面，以获取关于这些生活不同方面的信息。我们将共同探索这一科学领域，即人类骨考古学。 - 人类，因为它与我们和我们的祖先相关， - 骨骼，因为它关乎我们的骨头， - 考古学，因为我们运用这些信息更好地理解过去人类所经历的行为和事件。 在课程中，您将运用所学的方法和技术解读过去人类遗骸中的线索。您可能还会发现自己骨骼中的一些线索，以及它们揭示的您当前生活的情况。 课程大纲： 1. **骨骼与传记及人口统计**：选择一个您将在整个课程中逐步解开的谜团。本周研究线索，找出该个体的性别、年龄和身高。 2. **骨骼与疾病和创伤**：继续解开您在第一周开始的谜团。仔细观察骨骼病变，找出该个体曾患的疾病及其原因。 3. **骨骼与饮食**：继续分析您在第一周选择的骨骼。研究提供的数值、表格和图片，以了解该个体的饮食及其对骨骼组成和外观的影响。 4. **骨骼与活动**：继续解决您在第一周选择的谜团。研究骨骼上的活动痕迹，以了解该个体进行的活动以及其对身体的影响。 5. **骨骼与移动和迁徙**：本周，解读您在第一周选择的案例研究的最后线索。检查提供的数值、图示、表格和图表，以了解该个体在生活中有多活跃，以及他们是否、如何和在哪里迁移。
Part: 1
Title: Bones to Biography & Demography: Lesson Choices
Description:Choose one mystery which you will be solving, little by little, throughout the course. This week study the clues to find out if this individual was a man or a woman, and how old and how tall he or she was.
Part: 2
Title:Bones to Disease and Trauma: Lesson Choices
Description:Please continue solving the Mystery that you started in week one. Look at the bony lesions and study them carefully to find out what disease(s) this individual had, and what they were caused by.
Part: 3
Title:Bones to Diet: Lesson Choices
Description:Continue analyzing the skeleton that you chose in week one. Study the values, tables and pictures provided to find out more about the foods that this individual ate and how it affected the composition and appearance of their skeleton.
Part: 4
Title:Bones to Activity: Lesson Choices
Description:Continue solving the Mystery you chose in week one. Study the marks left on the skeleton as a result of activity and you will find out more about what activities this individual performed and the impact it had on their body.
Part: 5
Title:Bones to Mobility and Migration: Lesson Choices
Description:This week, decipher the final clues about the case study you chose in week one. Examine the values, figures, tables and graphs provided to find out how mobile this individual was during their life, and if, how, and where they migrated.
This course is about what we can learn from examining the human skeleton, and how we can use this knowledge to reconstruct the lives of people who lived in the past. In archaeology and anthropology, human skeletal remains can provide unique insights into the past and the present; insights that cannot be gained otherwise. These insights are explored in five main themes spread out over five weeks of learning. First, it is shown how age-at-death, sex and stature can be estimated by the close examination of (archaeological) skeletal remains. In subsequent modules it is shown how human bones can provide information about the diseases and injuries that people suffered from and what they ate. Also, it is shown how the human skeleton provides information about the kinds of activities that people engaged in and about how they migrated and moved around their landscapes. In this course, you will examine all aspects of the human skeleton that can provide us with information about these different facets of life. Together we will explore the scientific field that is known as human osteoarchaeology. - Human, because it is about us and our ancestors, - Osteo, because it is about our bones, - Archaeology, because we use this information to better understand the behaviors and events experienced by past people. During the course, you will decipher the clues left behind in the skeletons of past peoples with the methods and techniques that are presented. You may also discover some clues hidden in your own skeleton and what they reveal about the life that you are living. Want to know more? You can take a look at the course trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJi22TxzpRw
