Course: Etnoarchaeology

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Course title Etnoarchaeology
Course code KSA/ETARX
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester 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)
  • Podlena Jaroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction 2. Ethnoarcheology and paradigms 3. Anthropology vs. archeology 4. Evidence, inference, transformation 5. Analogies and mods 6. Mortuary practices I 7. Mortuary practices II 8. Mortuary practices III 9. Subsistence 10. Practice 11. How to use ethnographic data in retrospective research 12. Presentations of projects 13. Presentations of projects

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Project-based instruction, Discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, Students' portfolio, Skills demonstration, Seminar classes, Textual studies
  • Contact hours - 39 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to describe and explain the basic terms of epistemology, methodology and theory of social and natural sciences
Skills
to understand and interpret a professional text in Czech
to understand and interpret a professional text in English
to use electronic information resources
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to explain and describe the relationship between anthropology and archaeology
to characterize and explain the importance of transformation processes
to critically review the information received
Skills
operate a computer program (PowerPoint)
to find and apply relevant ethnographic data
to create a model that can be tested on archaeological data
work with the HRAF database
prepare and interpret their own project using computer and audiovisual technology
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Multimedia supported teaching
Textual studies
Project-based instruction
Discussion
Skills
Seminar classes
Skills demonstration
Discussion
Textual studies
Project-based instruction
Students' portfolio
Competences
Lecture
Seminar
assessment methods
Knowledge
Project
Oral exam
Skills
Oral exam
Project
Skills demonstration during practicum
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Oral exam
Project
Recommended literature
  • Binford, Lewis Roberts. Constructing frames of reference : an analytical method for archaeological theory building using hunter-gatherer and environmental data sets. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001. ISBN 0-520-22393-4.
  • David, Nicholas; Kramer, Carol. Ethnoarcheology in action. 1st pub. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-521-66779-8.
  • Fogelin, L. Inference to the Best Explanation: A Common and Effective Form of Archaeological Reasoning. American Antiquity 72:603-625.. 2007.
  • Gillespie SD, and Nichols DL. Archaeology is Anthropology. Arlington: American Anthropological Association, 2003.
  • Parker, P. M. Mortuary Practices, Society and Ideology: an Ethnoarchaeological Study," in Symbolic and Structural Archaeology. Edited by I. Hodder, pp. 99-113.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 1992.
  • Robben, Antonius C. G. M. Death, mourning, and burial : a cross-cultural reader. Malden : Blackwell Publishing, 2004. ISBN 1-4051-1471-1.


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