Course: Trasology

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Course title Trasology
Course code KAR/TRA
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
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)
  • Vaněk František, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Makovička Tomáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) History of traseology 2) Basic methodological procedures 3) Introduction to the use of the microscope and the digital photography 4) Traseology of stone artefacts 5) Traseology of bronze artefacts 6) Basics of metallography 7) Experiment and its significance for interpretation 8) Traseology in the archaeology of the Middle Ages

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Contact hours - 62 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 28 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To summarize the importance and difference of archaeology and history as scientific disciplines for understanding the past
To summarize the problems of archaeological methods
Skills
To understand a scientific text in English/German
To use adequate terminology
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture
To work under professional leadership
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize the possibilities of interpreting working traces on archaeological artifacts
To summarize the importance of trasology in archeology
To summarize basic methodological procedures in trasology
Skills
To identify work marks on metal artifacts
To identify work marks on stone artifacts
Identify working traces on artifacts from organic materials
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture with visual aids
Skills
Laboratory work
Skills demonstration
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Skills
Project
Recommended literature
  • HAVLÍKOVÁ, M. - KRIŠTUF, P. Stopy po použití na bronzových mečích z řeky Labe u Neratovic, okr. Mělník - Wear?traces on bronze swords from the Elbe River near Neratovice, Mělník District. Archeologie ve středních Čechách 23, 459-468. 2019.
  • KRÁLÍK, Miroslav - URBANOVÁ, Petra - HLOŽEK, Martin. Nové archeologické výzkumy šlechtických sídel 15. století. Supplementum. 16, 61-79. 2006.
  • Krištuf, Petr; Nožinová, Soňa. Možnosti rekonstrukce kroje doby bronzové na základě analýzy povrchu bronzových náramků. Archeologické výzkumy v jižních Čechách ISSN 0231-. 2018.
  • Petr KRIŠTUF, P. - BOHÁČ, M. Traseologická analýza bronzové sekery z Hroznětína (okr. Karlovy Vary). 2017.
  • Petr NERUDA, Zdeňka NERUDOVÁ, Andrea ŠAJNEROVÁ-DUŠKOVÁ. Trasologická analýza micoquienských bifaciálních nástrojů z jeskyně Kůlny. Acta Musei Moraviae - scientiae sociales = Časopis Moravského zemského muzea - vědy společenské /95, č. 1, s. 3-15. 2010.


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