28795 - Prehistory and Protohistory (LM)

Learning outcomes

The course will allow students  to know italian protohistory and acquire the capability to deepen specific topics through the learning of methods and through the widening of records and contexts.

Course contents

The Copper Age and the Bronze Age in Italy: case study for the analysis of settlement pattern with a particular reference to the demographic aspects, resources management and craft productions. Chronological description of main cultural aspects from Early Copper Age to the Final Bronze Age through the analysis of the most important contexts in the italian peninsula and in the islands.

Along this topics, the course will face the methodology of prehistoric research, discuss the meaning of “cultural aspects” and how they can be identified in the archaeological record.

Readings/Bibliography

Bietti Sestieri A.M. L'Italia nell'età del Bronzo e del Ferro, Carocci, Roma 2010; De Marinis R.C. (a cura di) Il Museo Civico Archeologico Giovanni Rambotti. Una introduzione alla preistoria del lago di Garda, Castiglione delle Stiviere, 2000. Bernabò Brea B., Cardarelli A., Cremaschi M., Le Terramare. La più antica civiltà padana,Catalogo della Mostra, Modena 15 marzo - 1 giugno 1997, Elemond, Milano 1997; Cocchi Genick D. (a cura di) L'età del Bronzo recente in Italia, atti del Convegno Nazionale 26-29 ottobre 2000, Lucca 2004; Melis P. Civiltà nuragica, Delfino, Sassari 2003; Moravetti A. La Preistoria: dal Paleolitico all'età nuragica, in M.Brigaglia, A.Mastino, G.Ortu, (a cura di). Storia della Sardegna. 1: dalla Preistoria all'età bizantina. Roma; Bari, Editori Laterza. pp. 10-34.

Further texts will be added during the course lessons.

Teaching methods

Methods applied during the course include lectures illustrated with powerpoint, seminars on application of methodologies and data processing of most important archaeological record organized in working groups.

Assessment methods

For attending students: 1.Illustration in a specific lesson of one theme selected by the candidate 2.Questions on main topics and reference texts. For non attending students, please contact the teacher. 

Teaching tools

Lectures will be illustrated with powerpoint presentations; Seminars on application of methodologies about the analysis of settlement pattern will use a Personal Computer with digital archives.

Links to further information

http://ipotesidipreistoria.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Cattani