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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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1. Introduction to problematics, characteristics of hunt-collect populations archeology, differences against younger Prehistory, basic terminology and theoretical solutions in context of paleontology, processual and postprocessual archeology. 2. - 3. Documentation of archeological not destructive methods of exploration; methods of excavation; sorting and inventorization of archeological material, drawing and photographical documentation of horizontal and vertical structures, localization of archeological findings and objects with GPS and total station, digitalization of analogue research datas. 4. Dating of archeological record- possibilities, methods (14C, K-Ar, OSL aj.), suitability and limits of their usage, methodology of samples taking; problematics of dating 14C AMS, calibration, pre-preparation ABA vs. ABox 5. - 7. Scienctific analysis tific - introduction of specific methods and their application in Paleolithic and Neolithic archeology, taking and laboratory elaborating of samples; geoarcheology (geochemistry, sedimentary microbiology, micro stratigraphy); paleobotany (palynology, analysis of macroresidues, fylolites), malacology, zooarcheology and paleontology, analysis of stable isotopes (study of nutrition of the specific population) and histological analysis of hard tissue from skeletal findings (study of age of hunted animal and time of hunt); analysis of DNA. 8. - 9. Analysis and interpretation of archeological record- computer elaborating of recorded space datas in GIS, in statistic and shaping programmes, advance space analysis and their interpretation, methodological procedures of Paleolithic/Mesolithic artefacts analysis, techno-typological analysis, operating series, traseology; methodology of research and Paleolithic arts interpretation. 10. Archeological analogies and interpolations, etnoarcheology, experimental archeology, interpolations of evolutionism. 11. - 12. Case study, examples of particular research, scientific projects and synthetic studies in Paleolithic and Mesolithic archeology in local and world perspective; introduction to methods of Center for Paleolithic period and paleontology ARÚB AV ČR in Dolní Věstonice and similar departments in world perspective, for example: Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Antropology, Leipzig or Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University, Tokio.
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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
- 50 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 52 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 25 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Lectures introduce current methods, analogies and interpretations used in research of Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods. Paleolithic archeology - presents interdisciplinary science connected to Quarternary geology and paleoantropology - is methodologically complex discipline studying life and adaptation hunt-collect societies in changing climate in pleistocene and holocene landscape. Such a research has broad interdisciplinary character and it takes advantage from the extensive scale of methods and analogies, which facilitate possibility of detail documentation, analysis and interpretation of archeological findings and situations.
Proficiency in the problematics, survey in current literature, ability to critical enquiry of scientific hypothesis and accounts.
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Prerequisites
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Basic proficiency in Central European Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods on a BA level of study, completion of course Current trends in Paleolithic and Mesolithic archeology in Winter semester is recommended and also submit to course Mobile artefacts i Paleolithic and Mesolithic Era in Spring semester.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Attendance in classes (52 hours = 2 credits); study of informational sources (50 hours = 2 credits); preparation on colloquium (25 hours = 1 credit).
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Recommended literature
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Binford, L.R. (1983). In Pursuit of the Past. Decoding the Archeological Record.. London.
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Butzer, K. (1982). Archaeology as human ecology. Cambridge.
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Gould, R.A. (1980). Living archeology. Cambridge.
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Hodder, I. (1991). Reading the past (revised edition). Cambridge.
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Malina, J. (1980). Metody experimentu v archeologii. Praha.
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Nigst, Ph.R.; Viola, T.B.; Doneus, M.; Antl-Weiser, W. (2004). Digitale Dokumentation paläolithischer Grabungen. , Archäologie Österreichs 15/1.
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Renfrew, C.; Bahn, P. (2004). Archaeology. Theories, methods, and practice.. London.
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Svoboda, J. (1999). Metody, analogie a interpretace v paleolitickém výzkumu. , Přehled výzkumů 39 (1995-1996).
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Svoboda, Jiří. (2009). Čas lovců. Aktualizované dějiny paleolitu.. Brno.
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Šída, P. (2012). Metody terénního výzkumu a vyhodnocení paleolitických a mezolitických situací. Ústí nad Orlicí.
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Wheatley, D.; Gillings, M. (2002). Spatial Technology and Archaeology. The archeological applications of GIS.. London.
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Yellen, J.E. (1977). Archaeological approaches to the present: Models for predicting the past.. New York.
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