AEA_06 Field Theory

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petr Dresler, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Peter Kováčik, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Dobešová
Timetable
Mon 8:20–9:55 C43
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 50 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/50, only registered: 0/50
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course description: Destructive and non-destructive methods of field archaeology (survey, excavation), their characteristics, usage and advantageous application based on the field situation, technical documentation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Field research in the Czech speaking countries and in Slovakia; a brief history and the development after WWII. Organization of archaeology in the Czech speaking countries and in Slovakia. 2. Archaeological feature in the field and in the collections. Specific methods of archaeological researches. Types of researches. 3. Ways of discovering new sites. Methods of prospecting – visual research, aerial photography and the usage of geophysics. 4. Types and characteristics of archaeological memorials, settlements, burial grounds, barrow grounds, deposits etc. 5. Layer, feature, grave, ditch, palisade and other units of archaeological monuments. 6. - 8. Destructive and non-destructive archaeological methods applied at archaeological sites; their strengths and weaknesses. 9. Principles of field research. Fundamentals of site documentation and surveying. 10. Procedures for selection of archaeological features. Main principles and methodology. 11. Research of skeleton and cremated burials and their documentation. 12. Research of settlements and their units. Principles of settlement and residential features researches. 13. Drawing and photographic documentation of settlement units. 14. Research documentation and its types. Uniformity of description, terminology and drawing expression. 15. Taking of soil and other samples. Conservation of a find directly at the site of discovery. Unearthing of a feature in situ. Use of chemical preparations in the field. Lakprofil. Practical part (training workshop): surveying and drawing of features in the field, levelling, total surveying of the site and tracing out a square network.
Literature
  • HAŠEK, Vladimír and Zdeněk MĚŘÍNSKÝ. Geofyzikální metody v archeologii na Moravě. Brno: Muzejní a vlastivědná společnost v Brně, 1991, 190 s. ISBN 8085048337. info
Assessment methods
Teaching: 1 hour lecture + 1 hour seminar per week Assessment: Oral examination, field work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2008, recent)
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