- Docente: Andrea Picin
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ANT/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Cultural Heritage (cod. 9076)
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from Jan 28, 2025 to Mar 04, 2025
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide an introduction to the most ancient periods of Prehistory, from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic, with a particular interest in the Italian sites. At the end of the course, the student acquires skills regarding the methodologies for the study of the paleoenvironment and the interpretation of the settlement choices, the subsistence strategies, technological innovation and cultural manifestations of prehistoric man.
Course contents
The course is intended to give a survey of the archaeological evidences of human behavioral evolution from the Lower Paleolithic to the Neolithic in Africa and Eurasia
The following topics will be addressed:
- History of the discipline
- Methods of analysis of prehistoric sites
- Introduction to the Quaternary
- Essentials of Human Evolution
- Culture remains, subsistence economy, environmental resources, settlement strategies from Palaeolithic to Neolithic
Readings/Bibliography
Martini F., Archeologia del Paleolitico, Carocci, 2nd edition, 2019
Pessina A., Tiné V., Archeologia del Neolitico, 2nd edition, Carocci 2022
Teaching methods
The course is based on lectures dealing with the program topics.
Assessment methods
The evaluation consists of an oral exam on the course program. The student must show that he/she has acquired adequate general and systematic knowledge of the various topics and has mastered the scientific and methodological tools necessary for a reasoned analysis of the program subjects.
Gradation of the final grade
A very thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with high skills of critical analysis, ability to use specific archaeological terminology will be evaluated with the maximum score (30-30 cum laude).
A thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with good analytical and critical skills, proficiency of specific archeological terminology will be evaluated with good marks (27-29).
Relatively adequate preparation and sufficient analytical skills, even if not particularly articulated, expressed in correct language, will produce fair evaluations (23-26).
Sufficient preparation and analytical skills, expressed in barely formally correct language, will determine the sufficiency (18-22)
Teaching tools
Lectures will be illustrated with powerpoint presentations.
Students who are affected by learning disability (DSA) and in need of special strategies to compensate it, are kindly requested to contact the Professor, in order to be referred to the colleagues in charge and get proper advice and instructions.
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Picin
SDGs




This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.