Course: Archaeology of European Eneolithicum

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Course title Archaeology of European Eneolithicum
Course code KAR/1ENE
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Makovička Tomáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1) Clothing and folk costumes in the Stone Age. 2) Body decoration and tattoos. 3) Burial rituals. 4) Ritual districts - fortification, megalithic buildings. 5) Male and female world in the Stone Age. 6) Rituals of the Stone Age. 7) The symbolic nature of decorating ceramics. 8) Social identity. 9) Social structure. 10) The mobility of Stone Age populations.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 15 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 17 hours per semester
  • Individual project (40) - 40 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 78 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 50 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
To characterize individual periods of prehistory
To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past
Skills
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture
To use adequate terminology
To use electronic information sources
To understand a scientific text in English/German
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in Europe
To summarize of the chronology of Eneolithic in Central Europe
To summarize the status of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period
To have an overview of settlement strategies of individual archaeological cultures
To give examples of symbolic human behaviour in the Eneolithic, and its archaeologically intelligible manifestation
To characterize the source base for the observed period
Skills
To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods chronologically
To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods functionally
To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically
To demonstrate social and cultural changes of chosen Eneolithic artifacts individually
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture
Skills
Students' portfolio
Individual study
Practicum
Competences
Lecture
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Test
Skills
Seminar work
Project
Individual presentation at a seminar
Competences
Combined exam
Recommended literature
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  • Bradley, R. (ed.). Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain. Cambridge University Press.. Cambridge, 2005.
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