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Lecturer(s)
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Makovička Tomáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Basic topics: 1) Basic characteristics of the Neolithic 2) Neolithic revolution and the spread of the Mesolithic 3) Relationship with Mesolithic populations 4) Agriculture and subsistence 5) Residential areas and forms of settlement 6) Burial rites 7) Supra-community areas-rondels 8) Violence and warfare in the Neolithic 9) Exploitation of raw materials and long-distance contacts 10) Clothing, costume and identity 11) Neolithic society
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 15 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 50 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 read and to understand a scientific text in Czech |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To use electronic information sources |
| learning outcomes |
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| To summarize of the chronology of Neolithic in Bohemia and Central Europe |
| To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in the Bohemian Neolithic, and, partially, in Europe |
| To summarize the status of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period |
| To summarize material culture in the Bohemian Neolithic |
| 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 |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Combined exam |
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Recommended literature
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Krištuf, P. a kol. Arény předků. Posvátno a rituály na počátku eneolitu = Ancestral arenas: Cult and ritual at the begining of the Eneolithic period. Plzeň ZČU, 2019.
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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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Pavlů, Ivan. Life on a neolitic site. Bylany - Situational analysis of Artefacts.. Praha: Insitute of Archaelogy, 2000. ISBN 80-86124-24-X.
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Pavlů, Ivan; Metlička, Milan. Neolitický sídelní areál ve Vochově : podle výzkumů Archeologického ústavu AV ČR v Praze 1977-1980 a Západočeského muzea v Plzni 2004. Praha : Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 2013. ISBN 978-80-87365-64-9.
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Pavlů, Ivan; Zápotocká, Marie. Archeologie pravěkých Čech. 3, Neolit. Praha : Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 2007. ISBN 978-80-86124-71-1.
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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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