ANTHROPOLOGY

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Movement science
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2022/2023
Year: 
1
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2022/2023
Course type: 
Basic compulsory subjects
Credits: 
2
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
16
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (16 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Anthropology and Paleoanthropology, the history of the discipline.
Paleoanthropology: the Rift Valley and climate-environmental changes a
starting from 6 Ma, the adaptation of some species.
Analysis of the fossil finds from the anatomical-morphological point of view
biomechanical.
The fossils of
Saelanthropus tchadensis,
Orrorin tugenensis, Ardipithecus kadabba and ramidus.
The australopithecine forms: anamensis, afarensis, bahrelghazali,
prometeus, gahri, africanus and sediba.
The genus Homo: habilis, ergaster, erectus, antecessor, georgicus,
heidelbergensis, naledi, neanderthalensis, sapiens.
Physical anthropology: application of identification methods on
skeleton. Generic identification on a skeletal basis: determination
phenotype, sex analysis, age at death estimate, height determination.
Anthropometry: metric analysis and calculation of body indices.
Forensic anthropology: identifying anthropological investigations.
Paleopathology: signs of pathological evidence on the skeleton.
Anthropology of sport: investigation of the constitutional profiles

Lectures and interactive discussion

The professor receives students by appointment:
marta.licata@uninsubria.it

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