Human Skeleton

How did life emerge on Earth? How have life and Earth co-evolved through geological time? Is life elsewhere in the universe? Take a look through the 4-billion-year history of life on Earth through the lens of the modern Tree of Life. This course will evaluate the entire history of [...]

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 [...]

Learn to use ‘human skeletal analysis’ to uncover the story behind human remains. Explore three sites from around the world. Discover what’s written in the bones. A human skeleton is uncovered. Who was this person? What is their story? Through ‘human skeletal analysis’, we are able to read the [...]