FF:KLBcB47 Europe and Meditter.I - Course Information
KLBcB47 Central Europe and Mediterranean Civilisations I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Eliška Kazdová, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Marie Pardyová, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Thu 12:30–14:05 C43
- Prerequisites
- The graduation of Aegean Prehistory and Prehistory of Europe is befitting.
- 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
- there are 7 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to compare Aegean prehistory with prehistory of other european regions, mainly Balcans and Central Europe.
- Syllabus
- 1. Chronology of European prehistory, specifics of European and Aegean chronological systems. Enviroment and paleolithics. 2. Neolit period: first farmers 3. Eneolit/chalcolit: Rexlexion of firts states 4. Late Chalcolit and Early Bronze Age - spreading of knowledge of the metal technology 5. Early Iron Age - reflexion of Near East empires 6. Final phase of Early BA - first urban centres in Central Europe 7. Middle BA - "Age of heroes" and warship 8. Late BA - Urnfield cultures - influence of Mycenaean and Solar cults. 9. Final phases of L BA and beginning of Iron Age - Hesiod's Iron Era 10. Halstatt - New era is coming. 11. Etruscans and Central Europe 12. Overview of metodological approaches to cultural changes
- Literature
- required literature
- Bouzek, J. 2010: Pravěk egejské oblasti. Zprávy ČAS, Suppl. 79. Praha
- Kristiansen, K. Larsson, T. B. 2005: The Rise of Bronze Age Society: Travels, Transmissions and Transformations. Cambridge.
- BOUZEK, Jan. Pravěk českých zemí v evropském kontextu. 2. přeprac. a rozš. vyd. Praha: Triton, 2011, 173 s. ISBN 9788073874636. 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
- recommended literature
- Earle, T. Kristiansen, K. 2000: Organizing Bronze Age Societies: The Mediterranean, Central Europe and Scandinavia Compared. Cambridge.
- Bouzek, J. 1997: Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the Second Millenium B. C. Praha-Goeteborg
- BOUZEK, Jan. The aegean, anatolia and Europe : cultural interrelations in the second millennium B.C. 1. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1985, 269 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Interactive lecture, class discussions. There is accented ability to create question and creation of metodology directed to their answer.
- Assessment methods
- Final test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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