Course: Historical heritage in landscape context 1

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Course title Historical heritage in landscape context 1
Course code KAR/HDK1
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)
  • Pacák Štěpán, prof. PhDr. CSc., DSc.
  • Sýkorová Jiřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Main topics: 1. Introduction to landscape archaeology, 2. Terminology 3. Historical development of landscape, theoretical approaches 4. Fields integrated into research on past landscapes and settlements, their theoretical approaches 5.-7. Types of immovable monuments preserved in the relief of prehistoric landscapes 8.-10. Types of immovable monuments preserved in the relief of medieval landscapes 11.-12. Modern landscape and contemporary landscape

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 40 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 25 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To summarize basic non-destructive survey methods, and the possibilities of their application in researching past settlement patterns
Skills
To understand a scientific text in English/German
To use adequate terminology in Czech
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize theories and methods of the discipline
To summarize the development of the landscape in the period of prehistory - modern times
Skills
To use the methods of remote sensing in practice, and to apply them in modern archaeological projects
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Skills
Task-based study method
Individual study
Competences
Lecture
Individual study
Task-based study method
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Combined exam
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Comer, D. C., Harrower, M. J. (eds.). Mapping Archaeological Landscapes from Space. New York: Springer, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4614-6074-9.
  • Cowley, David C.; Standring, Robin A.; Abicht, Matthew J. Landscapes through the lens : aerial photographs and historic environment. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84217-981-9.
  • D. Cowley (ed.). Remote Sensing for Archaeological management. Budapest, 2011.
  • Doneus, M. Die hinterlassene Landschaft. Prospektion und Interpretation in der Landschaftsarchäologie. Mitteilungen der Prähistorischen Kommission, Band 78.. Wien: Verlag der Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissentschaften., 2013. ISBN 978-3-7001-7197-3.
  • Gojda, M. Krajina v současném pojetí britské středověké archeologie - Landscape in the Perspective of British Medieval Archaeology. 1989.
  • Hoskins, W.G. The Making of the English Landscape (Penguin Books).
  • Kamermans, H.,; Gojda, Martin,; Posluschny, Axel. A sense of the past : studies in current archaeological applications of remote sensing and non-invasive prospection methods. Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4073-1216-3.
  • Kuna, Martin. Nedestruktivní archeologie : teorie, metody a cíle = Non-destructive archaeology : theory, methods and goals. Praha : Academia, 2004. ISBN 80-200-1216-8.
  • LASAPONARA, R. - Masini, N. Beyond modern landscape features. New insights in the archaeological area of Tiwanaku in Bolivia from satellite data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 26/2014: 464-471.
  • LOŽEK, V. - CÍLEK, V. Krajina jako přírodní a kulturní fenomén. In: Střední Čechy. Příroda, člověk, krajina. Praha, 2004.
  • Martin Gojda. Archeologie krajiny. Praha, 2000. ISBN 80-2000-0780-6.
  • Opitz, Rachel S.; Cowley, David C. Interpreting archaeological topography : airborne laser scanning, 3D data and ground observation. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-84217-516-3.
  • Pokorný, P. Neklidné časy. Kapitoly společných dějin přírody a lidí. 2011.
  • Sádlo, Jiří. Krajina a revoluce : významné přelomy ve vývoji kulturní krajiny českých zemí. Praha : Malá Skála, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86776-06-4.
  • WHIMSTER, R. The Emerging Past. Air Photography and the Buried Landscape. London, 1989.


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