FF:AES_104 Chipped stone industry analysi - Course Information
AES_104 Chipped stone industry analysis
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. et Mgr. Ludmila Kaňáková Hladíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. et Mgr. Ludmila Kaňáková Hladíková, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 10:00–11:40 M12
- Prerequisites
- Basic prerequisite is the interest on knapped lithic artefacts of European prehistory. Some effort in undestanding of such specific cathegory of findings is required. It need learn not only basic typological sorting, but principles of production techniques and methods and entire width of operational chain.
- 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 22 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 5/22, only registered: 0/22 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-AE) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-AE_) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-GE)
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-HI) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, B-HS)
- Archaeology (programme FF, D-AE)
- Archaeology (programme FF, D-HI4)
- Archaeology (programme FF, N-AE) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, N-AE_) (2)
- Archaeology (programme FF, N-GE)
- Archaeology (programme FF, N-HS)
- Classical archeology (programme FF, N-AE_)
- Course objectives
- Main goal of the course is to present basic characteristics of chipped stone industry, methods of its documentation and methods of its analysis for further exploitation of archaeological data.
The course includes an overview of applied raw materials, techniques and production methods, typology and functional attributes. Approaches of expert analysis, dynamic analysis, operational sequences, use-wear analysis and experiment are presented. - Learning outcomes
- After completion of this course, student will be able to:
- analyse any collection of chipped stone industry regarding the techniques and methods of production, morphotypology, and functional analysis;
- determine the applied raw material and chronological and cultural frame of Central European collections;
- document a collection both in database and drawing;
- consider the choice of best methodological tools to explore archaeological data from arbitrary collection - Syllabus
- introduction to study of chipped lithics (principles, history of research, modern methodology);
- chipped stone industry raw materials (introduction, classification, raw materials of Central Europe, studied characteristics);
- techniques and methods of production of chipped lithics;
- basic description of debitage and cores;
- dynamic analysis principles, classification by exploitation stage;
- basic description of tools (studied characteristics);
- morphotypological and functional classification of tools;
- basic database description of collection and statistic analysis;
- introduction to complex dynamic analysis and chaines opératoires;
- introduction to spatial analyses of chipped stone industry;
- documentary drawing workshop I;
- documentary drawing workshop II
- Literature
- recommended literature
- GIJN, A. L. van. Flint in focus : lithic biographies in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. Leiden: Sidestone, 2010, xxii, 288. ISBN 9789088900334. info
- ANDREFSKY, William. Lithics : macroscopic approaches to analysis. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005, xxiv, 301. ISBN 9780521615006. info
- WHITTAKER, John C. Flintknapping : making and understanding stone tools. Austin: University of Texas, 1994, 341 s. ISBN 9780292790834. info
- not specified
- veškeré studijní zdroje jsou obsaženy v kurzu https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=1710
- Teaching methods
- The course is held as a combination of lectures and practical workshop targeted at direct practical and haptic demonstration of artefacts and methods of their analysis. Obligatory workshop of documentary drawing is included. The course has a full e-learning version, which serves as study support.
- Assessment methods
- The course comprises 12 lessons. Every lesson contains texts, rich visual presentation, further reading, practicing modules and feedback test.
Evaluation is realised in each lesson as an oral test of expert knowledge based on presented subject. These tests serve as immediate feedback of understanding the analysis principles.
For practicing modules, at least 50 % are required (unlimited number of trials). For feedback tests (5 questions for assurance of understanding), 80 % are required. Mostly practical skills will be tested.
The course is terminated by a collective colloquium focused on the acquired expert skills. - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years. - Teacher's information
- https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=1710
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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