AEA_28 Seminar of the Prehistory Period

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Kolář, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 M21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Předpokladem pro úspěšné absolvování předmětu je dobrá znalost angličtiny a jednoho dalšího cizího jazyka. Některé hodiny mohou probíhat v angličtině.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Among the fundamental goals of the seminar we count the enhancement of the students’ knowledge of prehistoric archaeology. After successful completion of the course, students will be able to set their own research into the interdisciplinary and international context. Students will also improve their discussion and argumentation skills, in both spoken and written form. Emphasis will be put on the presentation of their own ideas and understanding of written text.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course, student will be able to:
- identify current topics of prehistoric and early historical research;
- formulate opinions on selected issues based on studied literature and set the results of this study into a broader context;
- compare scientific opinions on selected issues and justify their methodological bases;
- hold a well-founded discussion about a special topic;
- write a professional argumentative essay including the bibliographic references.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Archaeological culture
  • 3. Analogies in archaeology
  • 4. Social theory and methods of study of prehistoric society
  • 5. Warfare
  • 6. Gender and identity in archaeology
  • 7. Arrival of Indo-Europeans
  • 8. Ethnicity
  • 9. Chronology
  • 10. Economic changes in the Neolithic and Eneolithic
  • 11. Economy in the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt Period
  • 12. Long-distance contacts
  • 13. Social interactions and methods of their study
Literature
    required literature
  • Sosna, Daniel, Sládek, V., Galeta, P., 2010. Investigating mortuary sites: The search for synergy. Anthropologie XLVIII, 33–40.
  • Chapman, R., 2013. Death, burial, and social representation, in: Tarlow, S., Nilsson Stutz, L. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 47–57.
  • Fahlander, F., 2004. Archaeology and Anthropology - Brothers in Arms? On Analogies in 21st-century Archaeology, in: Fahlander, F., Oestigaard, T. (Eds.), Material Culture and Other Things. Post-Disciplinary Studies in the 21st Century
  • Wobst, M.H., 1978. The Archaeo-Ethnology of Hunter-Gatherers or the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record in Archaeology. American Antiquity 43, 303–309.
  • SØRENSEN, Marie Louise Stig. Gender archaeology. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity, 2000, xi, 236. ISBN 0745620140. info
    recommended literature
  • Gilchrist, R., 1999. Gender and archaeology: contesting the past. Routledge, London ; New York.
  • Květina, P., Hrnčíř, V., 2013. Between archaeology and anthropology: imagining Neolithic settlements. Anthropologie 51, 323–347.
  • Bickle, P., Whittle, A. (Eds.), 2013. The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways. Oxbow Books, Oxford and Oakville.
  • Gosden, C., 1999. Anthropology and archaeology: a changing relationship. Routledge, London; New York.
  • Gramsch, A. (Ed.), 2000. Vergleichen als archäologische Methode: Analogien in den Archäologien: mit Beiträgen einer Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theorie (T-AG) und einer kommentierten Bibliographie, BAR international series 825.
  • DOLEŽALOVÁ, Kateřina. První ženy moravské archeologie (First woman of Moravian archaeology). Studia archaeologica Brunensia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 18, č. 2, p. 63-78. ISSN 1805-918X. Digitální knihovna FF MU info
    not specified
  • HARDING, A. F. Warriors and weapons in Bronze age Europe. Budapest: Archaeolingua Alapítvány, 2007, 228 s. ISBN 9789638046864. info
  • MALLORY, J. P. and Douglas Q. ADAMS. The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world. First published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, xxiv, 731. ISBN 9780199287918. info
  • EARLE, Timothy K. Bronze Age economics : the beginnings of political economies. Boulder: Westview Press, 2002, xi, 452. ISBN 0813338778. info
Teaching methods
homework with compulsory literature, discussions, essay
Assessment methods
Requirements for the course-unit credit: homework, an adequately active participation in the seminars (3 absences tolerated); essay of sufficient quality
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2018.
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