FF:PAPVA_06 Laboratory Practice - Course Information
PAPVA_06 Laboratory Practice
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Kateřina Kepáková, DiS. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Inna Mateiciucová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- Požadavky k zápočtu: - numerické zpracování menších keramických souborů prostřednictvím kódu - samostatné zhotovení jednoduchých odlitků archeologických artefaktů - praktická znalost postupu laboratorního zpracovávání archeologických nálezů z příslušných objektů - zásady inventarizace
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 12 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/12, only registered: 0/12, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/12 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Prehistoric Archaeology of Near East (programme FF, B-AE) (2)
- Prehistoric Archaeology of Near East (programme FF, B-HI) (2)
- Prehistoric Archaeology of Near East (programme FF, B-HS)
- Course objectives
- Course description: Training in practical techniques of cleaning, conservation and restoration of archaeological artefacts, especially ceramics, but also including metals and organic materials. The basics of drawing.
- Syllabus
- 1. Types of archaeological relics and materials these were made of. Methods of dealing with archaeological finds and their preservation prior to conservation. Characteristics of organic and inorganic materials. 2. Methods of conservation of individual materials (stone, clay, pottery, metal, bone, wood, textile, leather, glass etc.). An outline of new experimental methods of conservation and restoration. 3.-7. Laboratory practice: washing and drying of pottery fragments, sticking together, completing and painting of pottery. 8.-9. Laboratory practice: casting of small items, preparation of mould and plaster, casting itself. 10.-12. Laboratory practice: principles of primeval finds processing, their classification and recording within settlement features. 13.-15. Utilization of numeric description and practical processing of minor find complexes by means of a code.
- Literature
- PODBORSKÝ, Vladimír. Numerický kód moravské malované keramiky : problémy deskripce v archeologii. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Brně, 1977, 299 s., [4. info
- Teaching methods
- laboratory practice
- Assessment methods
- Teaching: 2 hours seminar per week Assessment: Field work
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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