PROTOHISTORY OF CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN

According to the Dublin descriptors the course will have the following goals:

Knowledge and understanding: to provide the student with knowledge of the outline of the evolution of Central Mediterranean societies from the II to the I millennium B.C., through the analysis of important case studies for the different periods.

Application of knowledge and understanding: to make students able to carry out research in the field of protohistoric archaeology through the acquisition of suitable methodologies in the field of archaeological, epigraphic and bibliographical research. This goal will be achieved through teaching in seminars.

Making judgements: ensure students develop a critical approach to the scientific literature through systematic comparison between published descriptions of monuments and the monuments themselves. This goal will be achieved through excursions and site visits.

Communication skills: provide students with the necessary specialised terminology to ensure they are able to communicate effectively with the scientific community.

Learning skills: to develop a students’ autonomy in identifying the most suitable scientific literature and in understanding it correctly. 

The course is structured in two modules. The first module (Militello) will examine archaeological documentation relating to the central Mediterranean in the second millennium; the second module (Todaro) will focus on the period between the end of the II millennium and the beginning of Greek colonization.

Module 1 – Central Mediterranean in the II millennium b.C. (3 CFU)

1) Sestieri, Anna Maria Bietti. 2014. Sicily in Mediterranean History in the Second Millennium BC. The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Knapp, A. Bernard and Peter van Dommelen, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 74-95. 

2) F. Iacono et alii, Establishing the Middle Sea: The Late Bronze Age of Mediterranean Europe (1700–900 BC), in Journal of Archaeological Research 2021, pp. 1-75.

3) R.M. Albanese Procelli, Sicani, Siculi, Elimi, Milano 2003, pp. 1-128.

Module 2 – The central Mediterranean in the First Millennium b.C. (3 CFU)

1) Jeffrey P. Emanuel, After the Fall: The Early Iron Age in the Aegean and Central Mediterranean, in Naval Warfare and Maritime conflict in the late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mediterranean, 2020, pp. 282-310

2) A. Kotsonas, J. Mokrisova, Mobility, Migration, and colonization, in A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, a cura di I. Lemos e A. Kotsonas, pp. 217-246

3) R. Leighton, “Sicily”, in A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean, a cura di I. Lemos e A. Kotsonas, pp. 1237-1252.

4) Albanese, La Sicilia centro orientale dal Bronzo Recente alla prima età del ferro, in Atti della XLI Riunione scientifica “dai ciclopi agli ecisti: società e territorio nella Sicilia preistorica e protostorica” (San Cipirello (PA), 16-19 novembre 2006), Roma 2012, pp. 185-205

5) La Torre, Gioacchino Francesco Le popolazioni indigene della Sicilia all'epoca della colonizzazione, in Atti della XLI Riunione scientifica “dai ciclopi agli ecisti: società e territorio nella Sicilia preistorica e protostorica” (San Cipirello (PA), 16-19 novembre 2006), Roma 2012, pp. 231-254

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