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Lecturer(s)
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Havel Zdeněk, prof. PhDr. CSc.
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Havel René, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Chládek Tomáš, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The main attention is payed to the relation between theoretical and empirical aspects of archaeology, to the transformation theory and to the basics of archaeological method.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Task-based study method, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report) (1-10)
- 10 hours per semester
- E-learning (given by an e-learning course)
- 145 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| No particular prerequisites specified. |
| learning outcomes |
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| Students analyze methodological issues of the current archaeological literature, to understand the relation of theoretical and empirical aspects and are able to apply archaeological methods. Students are oriented in the theory of science, and paradigms. They are able to present the methodological problems of their dissertation work and critically evaluate the approaches of their colleagues in the seminar. |
| teaching methods |
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| Seminar |
| Task-based study method |
| assessment methods |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Continuous assessment |
| Self-evaluation |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
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Recommended literature
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Binford, L.R. -Binford, S.R. A preliminary analysis of functional variability. Cambridge, 1966.
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Binford, L.R. Researching ambiguity: frames of reference and site structure. In: S. Kent (ed.), Method and theory for activity area research. New York, 1987.
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Hodder, Ian. Reading the past : current approaches to interpretation in archaeology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-521-40957-8.
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Neustupný, Evžen. Archaeological method. Cambridge, 1993.
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Neustupný, Evžen. Nástin archeologické metody. Archeologické rozhledy. Praha Archeologický ústav ČSAV, 1986.
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Neustupný, Evžen. Polygons in archaelogy. Památky archeologické. Praha Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 1996.
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Schiffer, Michael Brian. Behavioral archaeology. New York : Percheron Press, 2002. ISBN 0-9712427-1-2.
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Webster, G. S. Social archaeology and the irrational. 1996.
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