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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction to Paleolithic and Mesolithic mobile artefacts, distribution, used descriptive systems, methods and possibilities of their analysis and interpretation. 2. - 5. Chippedstone tools - principles of production, basic terminology and morphometric attributes of artefacts; employed stone materials, source locations and basic methods of determination; formal technological and typological description, dynamic technological analysis, concept of operating series; methodological accounts to analysis and creation of database, drawing and photographical documentation; case studies of cuted tools analysis; work with concrete archeological material, experimental cutting of stone artefacts. 6. Rough shaped and sharpened stone tools, basic description of artefacts, main differences, possibilities of analysis, case studies, work with concrete archeological material 7. - 8. Tools made of bone, antler and mammoth ivory, characteristics of specific materials and their differences; technology of production; typological classification, methods of description, analysis and documentation; analysis and interpretation of working traces; case study, work with concrete archeological material 9. Decorative and artistic items from organic material 10. Ceramics - zoomorf and antropomorf plastic art, forming of lumb, dermatoglyphs and prints of textile and other structures, analytical and documentary methods, case studies. 11. Artefacts made of different materials - tercier fosilie, wood and the other organic materials. 12. - 13. Artefacts vs. ecofacts - definition and problematics of differentiating. Specifics of excavation of specific groups of artefacts.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Homework for Teaching
- 25 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Course will focus on the Paleolithic and Mesolithic material culture. Classes will present specific examples of mobile artefacts made of stone, bone, antler, mammoth ivory, ceramics and rest of the extant materials and in the context typological, functional, social and symbolical. Classes also concentrates to chronology of development and cultural classification of specific groups of artefacts and attention also will focus on the deposition of artefacts in the real archeological context and problematics of the ecofacts differentiation against artefacts. Methodological accounts ofarcheological sources will be demonstrated; artefact way from taking in the original locality, through its description, to final analysis and interpretation and publication. Students will try description of to and analysis of selected group of artefacts on concrete archeological material; description, creation of databases, drawing, photographical documentation eventually.
Proficiency in the problematics, orientationin current literature, ability to select appropriate methodology for work with different sorts of archeological sources, analysis and interpretation od different groups of mobile artefacts on a individual base.
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Prerequisites
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Basic proficiency in the problematics of Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, knowledge from a BA level classes Artefactual archeology I-IV is necessary, completion of course Current trends in Paleolithic and Mesolithic archeology in Winter semester is recommended as well as submission to course Methods and Interpretation of Paleolithic research in Spring semester.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Attendance in classes, (26 hours=1 credits); study of sources and preparation on attestation (50 hours= 2 credits).
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Recommended literature
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Andrefsky. W. Jr. (1998). Lithic, macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge manuals in archaeology. Cambridge.
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Bordes, F. (1961). Typologie du Paléolithique ancien et moyen, 2 vols. Mémoires de l'Institut Préhistoriques de l'Université de Bordeaux 1. Bordeaux.
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Brézillon, M.N. (1971). La Dénomination des Objects de Pierre Taillée. Matériaux pour un vocabulaire des préhistories de langue francaise.. Paris.
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Cziesla, E.; Eickhof, S.; Arts, N.; Winter, D. (eds.). (1990). The Big Puzzle. Studies in Modern Archaeology 1. Bonn.
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Dauvois, M. (1976). Précis de dessin dynamique et structural des industries lithiques préhistoriques..
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de Sonneville-Bordes, D.; Perrot, J. (1953). Essai d'adaptation des méthodes statistiques au Paléolithique supérieur. , Societé Préhistoire Francaise L.
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Hahn, J. (1993). Erkennen und Bestimmen von Stein- und Knochenartefakten. Einführung in die Artefaktmorphologie. Tübingen, Archaeologica Venatoria 10.
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Inizan, M.L.; Reduron-Ballinger, M.; Roche, H.; Tixier, J. (1995). Technology and Terminilogy of Knapped Stone.
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Laplace, G. (1968). Recherches de Typologie analytique.
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Semenov, S.A. (1964). Prehistoric technology. London.
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Svoboda, Jiří. (2009). Čas lovců. Aktualizované dějiny paleolitu.. Brno.
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Zelinková, M.; Lázničková-Galetová, M. (2007). Industrie z tvrtdých živočišných materiálů doby kamenné II.. Praha.
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Zelinková, M.; Lázničková-Galetová, M. (2007). Industrie z tvrtdých živočišných materiálů doby kamenné I.. Praha.
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