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Lecturer(s)
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Fialová Miriam, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1. Natural environment and climate changes at the end of the Eneolithic. The first pastoral cultures in Central Europe 2. Material culture of shepherds and nomads in the Bronze Age 3. Spiritual culture of shepherds and nomads in the Bronze Age 4. Iron metallurgy in Europe and the migration of nomads from Asia 5. Migration of the Sarmatians. 6. The beginnings of the migration of the nation in Europe. 7. Arrival of Avars in Europe 8. Treasures as an image of the cultural situation from the 7th and 8th centuries in the steppe zone 9. Steppe and forest-steppe in the 8th and 10th centuries. 10. Migration of Turkish tribes. 11. Cumans 12. Nomads in written sources and archaeology.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture with visual aids
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 20 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 32 hours per semester
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| To characterize and to classify individual prehistoric, medieval and modern periods chronologically |
| To summarize the importance of archaeology for understanding the past |
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| To understand a scientific text in English/German |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
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| learning outcomes |
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| To summarize general nomadic cultural model of the 4th - 13th century in Central Europe, the Black Sea region, the Caucasus, the Pannonian Basin and Siberia |
| To summarize ethnogenesis, cultural framework, burial rites and material and spiritual culture in the light of archaeological sources within the monitored areas |
| To outline the expression of art of these societies |
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| To identify basic outlines of material base of individual cultures in the monitored areas based on different settlement strategies in contrast with agricultural cultures |
| To put imported goods into context |
| To compare artefacts of eastern and western regions |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
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| Skills demonstration |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Skills demonstration |
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| Combined exam |
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| Seminar work |
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| Combined exam |
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Recommended literature
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L'or des Amazones : peuples nomades entre Asie et Europe, VIe si?cle av. J.-C.-IVe si?cle apr. J.-C. : M usée Cernuschi, Musée des arts de l'Asie de la ville de Paris, 16 mars-15 juillet 2001.. Paris ; Paris-Musées, 2001. ISBN 2-87900-538-8.
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Čermáková, Eva. Krajinami cizích časů : vnímání prostoru a času usazenými a nomádskými kulturami. 1. vyd. Praha : Dokořán, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7363-388-2.
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Harmatta, János. History of civilizations of Central Asia. Vol. II, Development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. Paris : Unesco, 1994. ISBN 92-3-102846-4.
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Spradley, James P. You owe yourself a drunk : an ethnography of urban nomads. Long Grove : Waveland Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-57766-085-9.
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