Course: Establishment Bronze Age

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Course title Establishment Bronze Age
Course code KHI/3VDB
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Peška Jaroslav, doc. PhDr. PhD.
Course content
Lectures: 1) 12) Gradual introduction to particular characteristics of the rise of Bronze Age. Seminaries: 1) 12) Analysis and discussion of individual information sources (academic literature) the students prepare background research of information sources in advance, and this is analysed with the lecturer in the seminary.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
  • Homework for Teaching - 64 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 36 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The end of one era and the rise of another is one of the most complicated and one of the least inspected periods of prehistory. The gradual rise of a new era characterised among others by the use of a new sort of metal (the alloy of copper and tin) was essentialy continuous in many aspects to the innovation of certain categories (changes in settlement structure, in burial rite, in fashion, in costume parts etc.). The influence of the two preceding beaker cultures is not clear, but the roots are found in that period; the impulses from the more advanced south-east regions (Carpathian/Pannonian Basin: Makó/Kosihy-Ćaka, Somogyvár-Vinkovci, Nagyrév culture) seem decisive. The bearer of the initial phase of the Bronze Age (newly formulated horizon "A0") is the proto-Únětice culture on the western bank of the Morava river and the beginnings of the Epi-Corded Carpathian complex east of the Morava river, and the components contemporary to these two (the genesis of the Únětice culture). The bipolarity of development with many differences, but also with common traits is notable in Moravia almost in the whole early Bronze Age. A description of this process with all characteristics and epiphenomena, including absolute chronology is the topic of this subject.
Good orientation in the area of study.
Prerequisites
Basic orientation in archaeological cultures, acquired in subjects of the bachelor study, particularly in the "Neolit a eneolit" (Neolithic and Eneolithic) and the "Doba bronzová a halštat" (Bronze Age and Hallstatt Era) subjects, eventually in the "Výběrové přednášky z archeologie 2, 4, 5 a 7" (Selected lectures on archaeology 2, 4, 5 and 7) subject.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Recommended literature
  • Peška, J. (2009). Protoúnětické pohřebiště z Pavlova. Olomouc.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Archeology (2016) Category: History courses 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer