MSc Osteoarchaeology
Programme Director
MSc Osteoarchaeology: Dr Lenny Salvagno (l.salvagno@sheffield.ac.uk)
Programme Induction Meeting
Date & Time: 20 September 2023, 11.00-12.00
Venue: BO9, Ella Armitage Building
This will be an informal group discussion to prepare you for the academic year and an opportunity to meet other students on your programme and ask questions. Individual meetings between yourself and your tutor can also be arranged by email at a mutually agreeable time.
Programme Regulations
Please use our programme regulations finder tool to view the structure of the programme of study, including the core units and approved modules you can take. It is important to review this information prior to selecting your modules.
> Enter AAPT80 in the search field and select 23-24 in the second drop down menu, then press 'search'. Please note that these regulations apply to both the full-time and part-time programmes.
Selecting the non-core modules you wish to study is part of the pre-registration process and you will be able to do this via the online module choice (OMC) system from 1 September 2023. We have prepared some guidance.
Introductory Reading
ANIMAL BONES
Albarella U. with M.Rizzetto, H.Russ, K.Vickers & S.Viner (eds). 2017. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [available online through the university library]
Useful compendium of international case studies, including a general introduction and a methodological glossary
Davis S.J.M. 1987. The Archaeology of Animals. London: Batsford
A rather dated but still very useful and readable introduction to zooarchaeology
O'Connor , T.P. 2000. The Archaeology of Animal Bones. Stroud: Sutton.
Another, slightly less old, introduction to zooarchaeology, providing a different perspective
Reitz, E.J. and Wing, E.S. 1999. Zooarchaeology. Cambridge: University Press. (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
Another introduction to zooarchaeology, but while the first two emerge from the British school, this offers a North-American perspective and is more methodologically detailed. Note that there is also an updated later edition.
There are also zooarchaeology textbooks in other languages, such as Japanese, Romanian, German and Italian. If anybody is interested, just ask for details.
HUMAN BONES
M Brickley and J McKinley (2004) Standards for the recording of human remains from archeological sites. IFA. Available online at www.babao.org.uk/HumanremainsFINAL.pdf
PD Mitchell & M Brickely (2017) Updated guidelines to the standards for the recording of human remains. http://www.babao.org.uk/publications/ethics-and-standards/
The titles of these two are rather self-explanatory
TD White & PA Folkens (2005) The human bone manual. London: Elsevier.