AEM_01b Seminar in Archeological Methods II

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petra Goláňová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, 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 (in Czech)
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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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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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
  • 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.
  • Sosna, Daniel, Sládek, V., Galeta, P., 2010. Investigating mortuary sites: The search for synergy. Anthropologie XLVIII, 33–40.
  • SØRENSEN, Marie Louise Stig. Gender archaeology. 1st pub. Cambridge: Polity, 2000, xi, 236. ISBN 0745620140. info
    recommended literature
  • Bickle, P., Whittle, A. (Eds.), 2013. The first farmers of central Europe: diversity in LBK lifeways. Oxbow Books, Oxford and Oakville.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Gosden, C., 1999. Anthropology and archaeology: a changing relationship. Routledge, London; New York.
  • 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 (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: K získání zápočtu je třeba dostatečná a aktivní účast a splnění zadaných úkolů.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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