University of Reading - Dead Interesting: Uncovering Roman Britain in Old Museum Collections
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Duration | 3 hours |
Total fee | ₹8,814 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
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- Understand the value of using new techniques to revisit, analyse and learn more from old museum collections.
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
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- What did a Roman funeral look, sound, and smell like? And how can you tell just from a persons remains?
- Join a research team uncovering exciting new information about cremation burials excavated over 100 years ago in Colchester, the site of Camulodunum, one of Britains oldest towns and its first Roman capital city. Learn about the latest techniques used to discover some of the secrets of the Roman Empire.
- This two-week archaeology course will give you an introduction to osteoarchaeology, the methods, techniques and theory used to study ancient bones, with a focus on early Roman Britain.
- Step behind the scenes with a museum specialist and osteologist to explore the stores housing the Romano-British collections as they show you the latest archaeological and osteological methods to analyse the cremated remains of an individual using their cremated remains.
- Using the evidence gathered by the experts, you will create a fact file about the age, sex, health, status, and origins of the individual. You will also identify other sources of information such as inscriptions and grave goods to build your knowledge of the people of Roman Colchester, including their cultural identity and migration patterns.
- Once you have built your profile of a cremated individual and understood the techniques used to reveal new insights about early Roman Britain, you will discuss how to present your findings in a public exhibition.
Dead Interesting: Uncovering Roman Britain in Old Museum Collections at FutureLearn Curriculum
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Uncovering details about Roman British society
Meet the research team
What can the pots tell us?
What can the bones tell us about funeral traditions?
What can the bones tell us about the status of the deceased?
Uncovering details about one Romano British individual
What do we know so far?
What can the bones tell us about sex, age and pathology?
What can the bones tell us about geographical origins?
Grave goods and inscriptions
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