AEA_62 The Bronze Age and the Hallstatt in Central Europe – seminar

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 10:50–12:25 C43
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AEA_02 Bronze Age and Halstatt in CE
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The topics to be discussed in the seminar: - Climatic changes in the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt - Burial rite; reflection of the society in the burial rite - Exceptional and non-ritual handling with mortal remains - Burials – a missing archaeological component? - Elites of urnfields and Hallstatt and their changes - Utilization of caves, the Býčí Skála cave - Upland settlements, fortifications - Lowland settlements - House and its reconstruction - Sunken features at the settlements; their interpretation, post-deposit processes - Pottery kilns and pyrauns - The Bronze Age cult and cultic features - Circular architecture - Extraction of silicite and its interpretation - Extraction of copper, proofs of bronze working - Analyses of bronze material and organic impresses on bronze items - Bronze and pottery hoards, context of their depositing - Measuring systems - Contact directions, imports of amber - Nomadism; Kimmerians, Thracians, Scythians - Etruscans
Syllabus
  • 1. Climatic changes in the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt 2. Orientation of skeleton graves at the end of the Eneolithic, in the early and middle Bronze Age. Mutual relations of burial grounds. Burials in coffins and stone lining Social structure, demography 3. The issue of grave “robbing” 4. Graves with pole structure, early BA 5. Graves with pole structure, late BA 6. Burial customs of barrow cultures 7. Anthropofagia 8. Graves with stone lining with the Lusation Urnfield culture people 9. Skeleton “burials” at the settlements 10. Undiscovered burials xx. Burials of children 11. Study of the cremation rite 12. Elites of early Urnfields in Slovakia 13. Elites of early Urnfields in Slovakia 14. Elites of Urnfields and Hallstatt 15. Transformation of a hero and beginnings of men's companies 16. Barrows of the Kalendenberg culture 17. Richly equipped tombs of the Hallstatt period 18. Utilization of caves 19. Fortified settlements - introduction 20. Upland settlement of the end of early Bronze Age (Budkovice, Blučina) 21. Upland settlement of the end of early Bronze Age (Nižná Myšla) 22. Upland and fortified settlements of the end of the Middle Bronze Age and the beginning of the UC (Blučina) 23. Upland and fortified settlements of the end of the Middle Bronze Age and the beginning of the UC (Velim) 24. The relation of metallurgy and upland settlements 25. Upland settlements of the late BA (Obřany) 26. Upland settlements of the late BA (Pobedim) 27. Upland settlements of the late BA (Vladař) 28. The Hallstatt hillfort of Molpír 29. The Hallstatt upland sites in South Bohemia 30. House in the Early Bronze Age 31. House in the Middle Bronze Age 32. House and habitat of early Urnfields (Lovčičky) 33. House and habitat of early Urnfields (Březno) 34. Houses at the Lusatian culture settlement (Turnov) 35. Fenced lowland habitats of the Hallstatt period (Kuřim, Milejowice) 36. House and buildings of the Hallstatt period 37. Reconstruction of buildings 38. Post-deposition processes and phosphate soil analyses 39. Types of settlement features and their interpretations 40. Pottery kilns and clay deposits 41. Pyrauns 42. Cultic features 43. Daub with plastic decoration 44. Cult of the Bronze Age 45. Nebra 46. Pantheon of Urnfield cultures 47. Circular architecture of the Bronze Age and the Hallstatt 48. Silicite mines of the Krumlovský les and the possible interpretations 49. Extraction of copper 50. Analyses of copper alloys 51. Organic impresses on bronze items 52. Bronze hoards of the early BA 53. Bronze hoards of the middle and late BA 54. Pottery hoards 55. Context of hoards depositing 56. Measuring systems 57. Amber 58. The Býčí skála cave 59. Nomadism 60. Kimmerians 61. Thracians 62. Scythians 63. Etruscans xx Contacts between Eastern and Central Europe
Literature
  • Bronzové depoty střední až pozdní doby bronzové na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Edited by Milan Salaš. 1. vyd. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 2005, 499 s. ISBN 8070282126. info
  • Bronzové depoty střední až pozdní doby bronzové na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Edited by Milan Salaš. 1. vyd. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 2005, 532 s. ISBN 8070282118. info
  • MOUCHA, Václav. Hortfunde : der frühen Bronzezeit in Böhmen. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 2005, 511 s. ISBN 8086124576. info
  • ČIŽMÁŘ, Miloš. Encyklopedie hradišť na Moravě a ve Slezsku : s leteckými záběry hradišť Miroslava Bálky. Photo by Miroslav Bálka. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 2004, 303 s. ISBN 8072771744. info
  • LEBEDYNSKY, Iaroslav. Les Cimmériens : les premiers nomades des steppes européennes IXe-VIIe siècles av. J.-C. Paris: Errance, 2004, 179 s. ISBN 2877722880. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Etruskové : jiní než všechny ostatní národy. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2003, 216 s. ISBN 8024605163. info
  • Pyraunoi : prenosné piecky a podstavce z doby bronzovej a doby železnej. Edited by Peter Romsauer. Vyd. 1. Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, 2003, 183 s. ISBN 8080506302. info
  • PALÁTOVÁ, Hana and Milan SALAŠ. Bronzezeitliche Gefässdepotfunde in Mähren und benachbarten Gebieten. Vyd. 1. Brno: Ústav archeologické památkové péče, 2002, 194 s. ISBN 80-86399-08-7. info
  • METZNER-NEBELSICK, Carola. Der "Thrako-Kimmerische" Formenkreis aus der Sicht der Urnenfelder- und Hallstattzeit im südöstlichen Pannonien. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 2002, 542 s. ISBN 3896465058. info
  • LEBEDYNSKY, Iaroslav. Les Scythes : la civilisation nomade des steppes VIIe-IIIe siècles av. J.-C. 1re éd. [Paris]: Errance, 2001, 267 s. ISBN 2877722155. info
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  • LUTOVSKÝ, Michal and Jan MICHÁLEK. Hradec bei Němětice :ein Herrensitz der Hallstattzeit und des frühen Mittelalters im böhmisch-bayerischen Kontaktraum. Strakonice: Muzeum středního Pootaví, 2000, 8 s. info
  • LUTOVSKÝ, Michal and Jan MICHÁLEK. Hradec bei Němětice :ein Herrensitz der Hallstattzeit und des frühen Mittelalters im böhmisch-bayerischen Kontaktraum. Strakonice: Muzeum středního Pootaví, 2000, 11 s., 209. ISBN 80-902457-5-7. info
  • HRALA, Jiří, Radka ŠUMBEROVÁ and Miloš VÁVRA. Velim :a Bronze Age fortified site in Bohemia. Edited by Anthony F. Harding. Praha: Institute of Archaeology, 2000, 348 s. ISBN 80-86124-20-7. info
  • PODBORSKÝ, Vladimír. Pravěká sociokultovní architektura na Moravě (Primeval socio-ritual architecture in Moravia). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 1999, 319 pp. ISBN 80-210-2194-2. info
  • FRÁNA, Jaroslav. Artifacts of copper and copper alloys in prehistoric Bohemia from the viewpoint of analyses of element composition II. Prague: Institute of Archeology, 1997, 220 s. ISBN 80-86124-04-5. info
  • STUCHLÍK, Stanislav and Jana STUCHLÍKOVÁ. Pravěká pohřebiště v Moravské Nové Vsi-Hruškách. Edited by Jaroslav Tejral - Miluše Dobisíková. Vyd. 1. Brno: Archeologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 1996, 211 s. info
  • PARZINGER, Hermann. Die Býčí skála-Höhle :ein hallstattzeitlicher Höhlenopferplatz in Mähren. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1995, ix, 275 s. ISBN 3-8053-1702-6. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan and Zdeněk KRATOCHVÍL. Od mýtu k logu [2-8649]. V Praze: Herrmann & synové, 1994. info
  • BOUZEK, Jan. Thrákové. 1. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1990, 230 s. info
  • LORENCOVÁ, Anna, Vladimír PODBORSKÝ and Jan BENEŠ. Těšetice-Kyjovice. Vyd. 1. V Brně: Universita J.E. Purkyně, 1987, 273 s. URL info
Teaching methods
papers, active students work
Assessment methods
Requirements for the course-unit credit: - Paper with ca 20-25 minutes time of presentation; in case of an unexcused absence at the date of the paper the students lose eligibility for a course unit credit - Principle points of the paper, ca 2 page, containing literature!! will be sent via email to 10.th of Mai - Active participation at the seminar
Language of instruction
Czech
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Study Materials
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