AEM_03h Central Europe and Mediterranean I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses represents an advantage: KLA_003 Aegean Prehistory, AEB_014c Bronze Age in Central Europe, AEM_03c European Bronze Age.
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
The aim of the course is to explain the relation between the Old World's regions during the early prehistory. The successful graduate is able to synchronize individual regions, define the periods of contacts between regions, is well versed in current research and interpretation issues and is knowledgeable about bibliography as well.
Learning outcomes
The successful course graduate is able to reliably synchronize the prehistoric development in the Mediterranean and in Central Europe, is knowledgeable about current bibliography and the topical problems of interpretation.
Syllabus
  • Chronological overview:
  • 1. Palaeolithic and Neolithic
  • 2. Eneolithic/Chalcolithic
  • 3. Early Bronze Age
  • 4. Middle and Advanced Bronze Age
  • 5. Late Bronze Age
  • Specific interpretation issues:
  • 1. Continental roads
  • 2. Sea roads
  • 3. Understanding of time and space in the Bronze Age
  • 4. Bronze Age cosmology, symbols and mythology
  • 5. Indo-Europeans - interpretation models
  • 6. Amber Road
  • 7. Problem of migration in prehistory
Literature
    required literature
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Pravěk českých zemí v evropském kontextu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Triton, 2005, 168 s. ISBN 8072546856. info
  • HARDING, A. F. European societies in the Bronze Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 552 s. ISBN 0521367298. info
  • KRISTIANSEN, Kristian and Thomas B. LARSSON. The rise of Bronze Age society : travels, transmissions and transformations. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005, xiv, 449. ISBN 9780521604666. info
    recommended literature
  • The Oxford handbook of the European Bronze Age. Edited by Harry Fokkens - A. F. Harding. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xxxi, 979. ISBN 9780199572861. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Vznik Evropy. Vydání 1. Praha: Stanislav Juhaňák - Triton, 2013, 359 stran. ISBN 9788073876708. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Prehistory of Europe as seen from its centre : Czech lands from Paleolithic to the end of the La Tène period in European context. Pragae: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 2011, 190 s. ISBN 9788073083335. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. The Amber Route, Apollo and the Hyperborans. In Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas, Proceedings of International Conference at University of Zagreb April 2005, ed. by I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis et R. Laffineur. Aegaeum, Annales d’archéologie égéenne de l’Université de Liège et UT-PASP, vol 27. 1st ed. Liege: Université de Liege, 2007, p. 357-362. ISSN 0776-3808. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. The aegean, anatolia and Europe : cultural interrelations in the second millennium B.C. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1985, 269 s. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Pravěk egejské oblasti. Praha: Československá Společnost Archeologická, 1967, 41 pp. Zprávy CSSA, Supplement. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, individual study and presentation of independently acquired knowledge, discussions.
Assessment methods
Active participation in the course, final test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Informace ke způsobu ukončení viz sylabus.
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every week.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3/course/view.php?id=3069
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2022.
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