Short online course: Plagues and Epidemics in Archaeology
Have you ever wondered about pandemics in the ancient past? How can we use archaeology and human skeletal remains to know more about ancient diseases? How did they spread? How many people did they infect? How did disease effect the daily life of those who survived?
We will address these questions and more in Plagues and Epidemics in Archaeology. This short-course (no credit) is divided into four weeks of online pre-recorded lectures provided by Dr. Charlotte Primeau (University of Warwick). Topics including the Plague, How did diseases start?, and Diseases in skeletal and mummified remains, will be featured. The course starts on May 1st, with new lectures released each week. The course ends on May 31st.