Adult Osteology Research Laboratory Workshop

The aim of this project is to evaluate how the major political events of the 16th and 17th centuries have physically impacted local Transylvanian populations. For that purpose, we have been studying human remains excavated from several medieval cemeteries from eastern Transylvania.  During the summer of 2027, we will concentrate our efforts on analyzing the exceptionally well preserved skeletal remains we have excavated from the collapsed medieval Church located in the community of Valeni/Patakfalva. 

          The osteology workshop will train students to conduct osteological analyses and frame bioarchaeological research questions. Participants will  receive  daily lectures on topics related to human skeletal biology and spend the first two weeks intensively reviewing human osteology, evaluating of sex and age estimation, osteometrics, and skeletal and dental pathologies.