FF:AEB_29 Theory and Method - Course Information
AEB_29 Chapters of Archaeological Theory and Method
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2021
The course is not taught in Spring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Evžen Neústupný, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts - 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 8 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Course introduce to archeological paradigms and methods (analises, synthesis of structures, interpretation), basic terminology from archaeological theory. Demonstrate artifacts as means of adaptation, socialization and communication and types of transformations, quantitative transformations (fragmetation, cummulation, reduction).
- Syllabus
- 1. unit
- Archeological paradigms. History and structure of the discipline. Paradigm and importance of paradigms for the discipline. Non-paradigm questions. Basic Anglo-saxon paradigms, their characteristics, questions, and answers. Paradigm changes in Czech archaeology. Non-paradigm factors influencing archaeology.
- 2. unit
- Basic terminology from archaeological theory. Major theoretical problems (structures, events). Artifacts, their causes, and expressiveness. Artifacts as means of adaptation, socialization and communication. Men contra artifacts. Archaeological events theory.
- 3. unit
- Living and dead culture, artifacts transformations into archaeological evidence. Transformationa as a archaeological methods. Types of transformations, quantitative transformations (fragmetation, cummulation, reduction). Aarchaeological methods (analises, synthesis of structures, interpretation). Description, finding of structures and modelling.
- Literature
- MACHÁČEK, Jiří. Studie k velkomoravské keramice. 1999, 177 s. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- coloquium in the extent of lectures and literature
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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