EUROPEAN PROTOHISTORY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016/2017

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY

Disciplinary Sector:

Pre- and Proto-History

Language:

Italian

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DEPALMAS Anna

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40001440

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Final oral exam

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Acquisition of theoretical knowledge about the methods of investigation and interpretation of the proto-history. Critical interpretation of issues related to pre-urban societies from Bronze Age to the threshold of history; knowledge and critical analysis of the main European protohistorical cultural aspects.

Contents

Research in European Protohistory: from the theoretical discussion to the publishing. Methodological aspects: the main theories, models and their applications in Protohistory, the archaeological sources, the typological classification: terminology, form and function. Ethnoarchaeology and Protohistory. General aspects relating to the Italian and European Protohistory : the start and development of complex societies. Contacts and trade in the Mediterranean during the Protohistory: the metal products.

Recommended Bibliography

A. GUIDI, Preistoria della complessità sociale, Bari 2000, pp. 140-245.
R. PERONI, L’Italia alle soglie della storia, Roma-Bari 2004, Laterza (parte introduttiva) da integrare per le parti di dettaglio sugli aspetti culturali con M. PACCIARELLI, Dal villaggio alla città. La svolta protourbana del 1000 a.C. nell’Italia tirrenica, All’Insegna del Giglio, Firenze 2000, pp. 11-69.
F. Lo Schiavo, A. Giumlia-Mair, R. Valera, eds, Archaeometallurgy in Sardinia, 2005, Editions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac.
Further texts will be added during the lessons.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Lectures using multimedia tools, seminars, field work, laboratory exercises, archaeological excavations

Other courses

Course year: 1

ETHNOLOGY AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
12 credits
GEOGRAPHY OF COASTAL LANDSCAPES AND GIS APPLICATIONS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE
12 credits
PREHISTORY
12 credits
ARCHAEOMETRY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
ARCHAEOZOOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
HISTORY OF CLASSICAL CULTURE AND TRADITION
6 credits - Caratterizzante
HISTORY OF LATIN LANGUAGE
6 credits - Caratterizzante
LANDSCAPE ARCHEOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
NEAR EASTERN HISTORY
12 credits - Caratterizzante

Course year: 2

ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ANTIQUITIES
6 credits - Caratterizzante
EUROPEAN PROTOHISTORY
6 credits - Caratterizzante
PROTOHISTORY OF SARDINIA
6 credits - Caratterizzante
FINAL TEST
18 credits - Lingua/Prova Finale

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