The first objective is what makes the project such a unique opportunity for its students. While you will not be excavating human remains, you will begin your work on the Piaţa Cetăţii collection at precisely the point at which excavation ceased. While most human remains in teaching laboratories have already been prepped and curated, the Piaţa Cetăţii collection is untouched. Rivulus Dominarum Bioarchaeology will teach you how to properly clean and prepare human osteological material for study. This skill-set, which is rarely developed by students outside of advanced graduate work, will familiarize you with bioarchaeological laboratory standards from the ground up.

Once the burials are cleaned and prepped for study, you will formulate biological profiles. These estimations of age-at-death, sex, and pathology are the building blocks of bioarchaeological research. You will gain experience formulating these profiles for both well-preserved skeletons and skeletons in the more fragmentary state that is typically encountered in the field. This advanced training will situate Rivulus Dominarum Bioarchaeology students in extremely competitive positions for future employment in conservation or museum studies, and graduate work in archaeology, bioarchaeology, or other field sciences.