Course: Archaeology of European Bronze Age

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Course title Archaeology of European Bronze Age
Course code KAR/BR
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Černý Radek, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Ganev Stanislav, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
1) The Bronze Age in Central Europe: general trends, development, chronology, periodisation, the current state of cognizance, new methods and trajectories of research. 2) South and South-Western Germany in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Age. 3) South and South-Western Germany in the Late Bronze Age. 4) Switzerland in the Bronze Age. 5) Northern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia in the Bronze Age. 6) Austria in the Early and Middle Bronze Age. 7) Austria in the Late Bronze Age and in the Early Iron Age. 8) the Carpathian plateau (Slovakia, Hungary, Transylvania, Vojvodina) in the Early and Intermediate Bronze Age. 9) the Carpathian plateau (Slovakia, Hungary, Transylvania, Vojvodina) in the era of urnfield culture. 10) Poland and Eastern Europe in the Bronze Age. 11) North and Central Germany and Scandinavia in the Bronze Age.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To characterize and to classify individual prehistoric periods chronologically
Skills
To understand a scientific text in English/German
To use adequate terminology
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize the development of bronze metallurgy in Europe
To summarize the importance of bronze artefacts in practical in symbolic level
To outline the overview of archaeological topic-related sources
To summarize existing knowledge about material culture of the Bronze Age in the monitored areas
Skills
To date basic bronze artefacts forming a part of material culture of the Bronze Age in Europe
To interpret basic bronze artefacts forming a part of material culture of the Bronze Age in Europe functionally
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
assessment methods
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Bátora, J. Štúdie ku komunikácii medzi strednou a východnou Európou v době bronzovej. Bratislava, 2006.
  • Blajer, W. Skarby ze starszej i środkowej epoki brazu na ziemiach Polskich.. Kraków., 1999.
  • Furmánek, V. a kol. Staré Slovensko: doba bronzová.. Bratislava., 2015.
  • Furmánek, V. Radzovce. Osada ludu popolnicových polí.. Nitra, 2010.
  • Furmánek, Václav; Veliačik, Ladislav; Vladár, Jozef. Slovensko v dobe bronzovej. Bratislava : Veda, 1991. ISBN 80-224-0350-4.
  • Furmánek, Václav. Zlatý vek v Karpatoch : keramika a kov doby bronzovej na Slovensku (2033-800 pred n. l.). Nitra : Slovenská akadémie vied, 2004. ISBN 80-88709-69-5.
  • Harding, A. - Fokkens, H. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age.. Oxford., 2013.
  • Harding, Anthony F. European societies in the bronze age. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-521-36729-8.
  • Jiráň, L. (ed.). Prehistory of Bohemia 4. The Bronze Age. Archeologický ústav AV ČR.. Praha, 2013.
  • Jiráň, Luboš. Die Messer in Böhmen. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. ISBN 3-515-07855-X.
  • Keiling, H. Die Kulturen der mecklenburgischen Bronzezeit.. Schwerin., 1987.
  • Koch, F. a kol. Bronzezeit. Die Lausitz vor 3000 Jahren.. Kamenz., 2007.
  • Meller, Harald. Der Geschmiedete Himmel : die weite Weld im Herzen Europas vor 3600 Jahren. Stuttgart : Theiss, 2004. ISBN 3-8062-1907-9.
  • Neugebauer, Johannes-Wolfgang. Bronzezeit in Ostösterreich. Wien : Verlag Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, 1994. ISBN 3 85326 004 7.


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