Osteology Course
This Osteology Fundamentals Course equips learners with essential skills in skeletal analysis for biomedicine, forensics, and research. Participants master sex and age estimation, ancestry profiling, bone biomechanics, pathology and trauma interpretation, taphonomic processes, and crafting professional reports aligned with ethical standards and current literature, applicable in clinical, forensic, and archaeological contexts.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain a practical overview of skeletal analysis in this Osteology Fundamentals Course, focusing on estimating sex and age-at-death, determining ancestry, understanding bone structure and biomechanics, and identifying pathologies and trauma. Develop abilities to assess taphonomic changes, utilise auxiliary tests effectively, and produce robust forensic and osteoarchaeological reports based on contemporary research and ethical guidelines.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Expert skeletal sexing using pelvic, cranial, and metric traits confidently.
- Practical age-at-death estimation with pubic, auricular, dental, and histologic methods.
- Efficient ancestry profiling combining cranial metrics and nonmetrics ethically.
- Trauma and pathology analysis to distinguish disease, stress, and fracture timing.
- Professional report writing structuring methods, justifications, and limitations clearly.
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