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Università degli Studi di Parma
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ISOTOPIC GEOCHEMISTRY
cod. 1004434

Academic year 2011/12
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Geochimica e vulcanologia (GEO/08)
Field
Discipline delle scienze della terra e della natura
Type of training activity
Characterising
48 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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Learning objectives

To give information on the recent developments of the Geochemistry intended as a cognitive interdisciplinary tool indispensable to realize and manage the problems relative to diet and environmental reconstruction on the past.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY APPLIED TO ARCHAEOLOGY
Generalities
Measurement units
Laboratory facilities

The Palaeo-environment reconstruction: The stable isotopes on biological apatite
The oxygen and carbon isotopes on inorganic fraction of skeletal remains
The carbon and nitrogen on the organic fraction of skeletal remains

The Palaeo-diets reconstruction: The stable isotopes on biological apatite
The carbon isotopes on inorganic fraction of skeletal remains
The carbon and nitrogen on the organic fraction of skeletal remains

Experimental examples on human population
Experimental examples on fauna associations

Laboratory

Full programme

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Bibliography

Photocopies supplied from professor

Teaching methods

Slides on powerpoint Microsoft program
Laboratory facilities

Assessment methods and criteria

Oral examination

Other information

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