AES_303 Phenomenon of Bell Beaker in Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
4/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Turek, PhD. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (assistant)
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)
Kurs je určen zájemcům o problematiku.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is a summary of the findings of the Bell Beaker period in Europe, with particular emphasis on the findings and issues of this period in Bohemia, Moravia and Central Europe. In addition to basic data, artefacts characteristics and regional realities, the present interpretive models and the main contemporary issues and research trends of this period will be also presented. Particular attention is paid to the genesis and origin of the bell Beaker phenomenon and to the interpretation of its ideological background. The course, due to its pan-European geographic scope and emphasis on population and cultural processes, far exceeds only one period of the late Stone Age and discussing the spread of cultural uniformity of the Bell Beaker phenomenon, illuminates a number of questions generally applicable to the reconstruction of social relations and cultural processes in prehistory.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- Understand and define the processes of spreading cultural uniformity across Europe
- To characterize the major geographies of prehistoric Europe and ways of communication between remote communities
- Define cultural regional differences and links
- Reconsruct the population and cultural processes in the 3rd millennium BC
- To master the chronology and typology of regional bell cup culture groups
Syllabus
  • 1.Character of society, economy, burial and cosmology at the end of Eneolithic period
  • 2. Characteristics of the Bell Beaker phenomenon Beaker World: Yamnaya culture, Globular amphorae and Corded Ware
  • 3. Genesis and spread of the Bell Beaker phenomenon
  • 4. Iberian Peninsula and North West Africa
  • 5. Lower Rhine, France and the Channel Islands
  • 6. Great Britain and Ireland
  • 7. Amesbury archer - case study
  • 8. Northern and Central Italy and Switzerland
  • 9. Southern Italy, Sardinia, Sicily
  • 10. Germany, Poland and the Jutland Peninsula
  • 11. Bohemia Moravia and south-west Slovakia and Lower Austria
  • 12. Csepel Group, Vojvodina & Srem
  • 13. Center, periphery and tradition of Bell Beaker phenomenon
Literature
    required literature
  • Neustupný, E. 2011: Pulzováni archeologických kultur. In: Bárta, M. – Kovář, M. a kol., Kolaps a regenerace: cesty civilizací a kultur. Minulost, současnost a budoucnost komplexních společností. Academia, Praha, 173–183.
  • Neustupný, E. 1997: Šňůrová sídliště, kulturní normy a symboly, Archeologické rozhledy 49, 304–322.
  • Turek, J. 2008: 5.3. Kultura zvoncovitých pohárů, in: Neustupný, E. (ed.): Archeologie pravěkých Čech 4 – Eneolit, Archeologický ústav Praha, v.v.i. 147-169.
  • Turek, J. 2006: Období zvoncovitých pohárů v Evropě – Bell Beaker period in Europe, Archeologie ve středních Čechách 10, 275-368.
  • Turek, J. 2014: Lost and found paradigms: Creation of the Beaker World, In: Kristian Kristiansen; Ladislav Šmejda; Jan Turek (Eds.): Paradigm Found: Archaeological Theory – Present, Past and Future. Essays in Honour of Evžen Neustupný, Oxbowbooks, Oxford
    recommended literature
  • Dvořák, P. 1993: Lid se zvoncovitými poháry. In: Podborský, V. (ed.), Pravěké dějiny Moravy, Vlastivěda Moravská, Země a lid. Nová řada, sv. 3. Brno, 218–232.
  • Nicolis, F. (ed.), Bell Beakers Today. Pottery, people, culture, symbols in prehistoric Europe. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Riva del Garda (Trento, Italy), 11–16 May 1998. Trento, 361–377.
  • Turek, J. 2013: Echoes and Traditions of the Bell Beaker Phenomenon, In: From Copper to Bronze. Cultural and Social Transformations at the Turn of the 3rd/2nd Millennia B.C. in Central Europe. Gewidmet PhDr. Václav Moucha, CSc. anlässlich seines 80. Gebu
  • Fitzpatrick, A. P. 2011 (ed.): The Amesbury Archer and the Boscombe Bowmen. Bell Beaker Burials on Boscombe Down, Amesbury, Wilthshire. Wessex Archaeology Report 27, Salisbury. 185-186.
  • Brodie, N. 1997: New perspectives on the Bell beaker Culture, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 16, No. 3, 297–314.
Teaching methods
Lessens
Assessment methods
written test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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