Background
A pilot study facilitated development of a CD/DVD resource which is an interactive tool that allows you to analyse high quality digitised skeletal material for use in forensic science teaching, such as human identification, forensic anthropology, basic osteology and first year forensic biology. It contains interactive tools to allow you to examine skeletal material from an excavation at Hulton Abbey which not only has unique historical significance but also unique forensic significance, which details how trauma marks on the skeleton show it is the first recorded evidence of someone being quartered in England as part of a ritual execution.
Subsequently, this project has been expanded to include a workpackage of activities that in part utilise the teaching resource on the CD/DVD and allow students to appreciate the fundamental element of anthropology/archaeology and pathology associated with skeletal material.
What them old bones can teach us
This document contains activities for tutors to offer to students. These activities develop from the basic understanding of the ethical handling of human bone remains and develop through to the understanding of skeletal anatomy. As the activities develop, the role of foresnsic pathology of skeletal remains is examined. There are also basic activities to introduce the concepts of archaeology and context of the materials recovered in an archaeologial setting.
Links to this resource as an OER
Jorum link: http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1635
eDocs link: https://edocs.hull.ac.uk/muradora/objectView.action?parentId=hull%3A2199&type=1&start=20&pid=hull%3A2304
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Professor John Cassella said
at 12:17 pm on Feb 7, 2010
Dear colleagues, please make sure that you request the freely avialable CD asociated with the Hulton Abbey project which will allow to to achieve so much more from this current project
The website is: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/home/projects/digitisationproject
Re: Digitisation Project
This JISC funded digitisation project has produced a teaching resource of skeletal material from an excavation at Hulton Abbey. Whilst primarily developed for forensic science teaching, the uniqueness and historical significance of the material gives the resource an interdisciplinary value.
The project resource was developed using Macromedia Director to produce a standalone product and is available on DVD in Windows and Macintosh formats. By developing the resource this way, individual images of the skeletal material can be searched for and examined using interactive tools.
Copies of the DVD are freely available upon request for use in UK Higher Education. If you would like a copy please email the Centre.
Download the project report.
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