EUROPEAN PROTOHISTORY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2014/2015

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ARCHAEOLOGY

Disciplinary Sector:

Pre- and Proto-History

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. Active involvement in thematic workshops

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.

Teaching Methods

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

Contacts/More Information

Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in foreign language (English, French, Spanish).
P. I. Martini, W.Chesworth (Eds.), Landscape and Societies. Selected cases, Stuttgard 2010.
F. Lo Schiavo, A. Giumlia-Mair, R. Valera, eds, Archaeometallurgy in Sardinia, 2005, Editions Monique Mergoil, Montagnac.

Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language (English, French, Spanish)

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