Course: Prehistoric Archaeology 6

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Course title Prehistoric Archaeology 6
Course code KAR/PRA6
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • David Bohuslav, doc. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
The students will be acquainted with Antiquity-period sources related to our territory. The aim of the course is to outline the historical development of the Czech territory in the given period and clarify how archaeological sources contribute to its knowledge. In addition to movable and immovable archaeological sources, students will be acquainted with the history of the research, the methods used in the study of the given period and with the institutions and researchers dealing with it. After completing the course, the students will have gained an understanding of the archaeological and partly also written and other sources and their significance for the knowledge and reconstruction of social life in the Roman period on the territory of the Czech Republic and in Central Europe.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • 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
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 read and to understand a scientific text in Czech
To use adequate terminology in Czech
To use electronic information sources
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
To summarize the chronology of archaeological cultures in the Roman imperial and Migration periods
To explain settlement strategies of specific cultures in the monitored periods
To summarize the issue of archaeologically intelligible manifestation of symbolic human behaviour in the Roman imperial and Migration periods
To create an overview of movable and immovable artefacts of specific cultures in the monitored periods
To characterize the source base for the observed period
To describe burial rite of the monitored period
To describe settlement strategies of the monitored period
Skills
To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored period chronologically
To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored period functionally
To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically
To demonstrate social and cultural changes of chosen artifacts within the Hallstatt, La Tene, Roman and Migration Periods
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture with visual aids
Self-study of literature
Skills
Practicum
Competences
Lecture with visual aids
Practicum
Self-study of literature
assessment methods
Knowledge
Combined exam
Seminar work
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Bartoňková, Dagmar; Radová, Irena. Antické písemné prameny : k dějinám střední Evropy. 2010. ISBN 978-80-86791-65-4.
  • Dobiáš, J. Dějiny československého území před vystoupením Slovanů.. Praha, 1964.
  • Droberjar, E. Doba římská v Čechách a na Moravě.. Hradec Králové, 2019.
  • Droberjar, E. Encyklopedie římské a germánské archeologie v Čechách a na Moravě.. Praha, 2002.
  • Droberjar, E. Od plaňanských pohárů k vinařické skupině. Sborník Národního muzea, řada A-Historie 53, č. 1-2. Sborník Národního muzea, 1999.
  • Salač, V. (ed). Archeologie pravěkých Čech 8 ? Doba římská a stěhování národů.. Praha, 2008.
  • Tejral, J. Na hranicích impéria (doba římská), in: V. Podborský ed. Pravěké dějiny Moravy.. Brno, 1993.
  • Wolfram, H. Das Römerreich und seine Germanen.. Wien - Köln - Weimar, 2018.
  • Wolters, Reinhard. Římané v Germánii. Praha : Vyšehrad, 2002. ISBN 80-7021-539-9.


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