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Lecturer(s)
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Černý Radek, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Pešík Petr, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Chronology and main archaeological cultures I. 2) Chronology and main archaeological cultures II. 3) Neolithic transformation. 4) Territories of long-term transition. 5) Mobility and migration. 6) Dwellings and households. 7) Ceramics. 8) Stone industry, resources and long distance exchange. 9) Subsistence and the archaeology of food. 10) Issues of ritual architecture. 11) Society and identity. 12) War and burial rites.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 52 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| To characterize individual periods of prehistory |
| To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
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| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To use electronic information sources |
| To understand a scientific text in English/German |
| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize of the chronology of Neolithic in Central Europe |
| To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in 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 Neolithic, and its archaeologically intelligible manifestation |
| To characterize the source base for the observed period |
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| 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 |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| assessment methods |
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| Oral exam |
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Recommended literature
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Bickle, P., Cummings, V., Hofmann, D., Pollard J. (eds.). The Neolithic of Europe: papers in honour of Alasdair Whittle. Oxford: Oxbow Books.. 2017.
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Bogaard, A. Neolithic farming in Central Europe. An archaeobotanical study of crop husbandry practices. London: Routledge.. 2004.
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Bradley, R. Long houses, long mounds and Neolithic enclosures. Journal of Material Culture 1/2:239-256..
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Dietler, Michael; Hayden, Brian. Feasts : archaeological and ethonographic perspectives on food, politics, and power. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. ISBN 1-56098-840-1.
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Fowler, Chris; Harding, Jan; Hofmann, Daniela. The Oxford handbook of Neolithic Europe. 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-954584-1.
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Gronenborn, D. Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: towards a theory. Documenta Praehistorica 36:97-110.. 2009.
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Heath, J. M. Warfare in Neolithic Europe : an archaeological and anthropological analysis. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Archaeology.. South Yorkshire, 2017.
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Hodder, I. 1990. The Domestication of Europe,. Blackwells, London.
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Hofmann, D. and Smyth J. Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe. Sedentism, Architecture and Practice.. New York: Springer, 2013.
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Květina, Petr; Řídký, Jaroslav,; Končelová, Markéta,; Burgert, Pavel,; Šumberová, Radka,; Pavlů, Ivan,; Brzobohatá, Hana,; Trojánková, Olga; Vavrečka, Petr,; Unger, Jiří. Minulost, kterou nikdo nezapsal. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7465-173-1.
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Řídký, J. a kol. Big Men or Chiefs?: Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.. 2019.
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Whittle, Alasdair. Europe in the Neolithic : the creation of new worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-44920-0.
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Whittle, Alasdair. The archaeology of people : dimensions of Neolithic life. London : Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-30408-3.
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