PREHISTORY AND EARLY HISTORY

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

1) knowledge and understanding. to give the student the basic knowledge of the research methodologies and the theoretical approaches used in the study of prehistory, and will know the outline of the evolution of human societies from the Paleolithic to the I millennium B.C., with special concern for the Italian and Sicilian area, through the analysis of some significant case studies for the different period.

2) applying knowledge and understanding. To develop the skill to apply theory and to critically read a document, as a monument. This goal will be obtained through training in classroom and outside.

3) making judgements. To develop a critical appraoch to scientific literature through a systematic comparison between published description of monuments and the monuments themselves.

4) communication skills. To provide students with a specialised lexical stock, in order to allow them to properly comunicate their scientific knowledge.

5) learning skills. To develop the students’ autonomy in identifying the most suitable scientific literature and to under stand it properly.

Attendance is not compulsory.

A      Teoria e metodi della ricerca preistorica; classi di materiali e tecniche di lavorazione: (2 CFU).

E. Giannichedda, Archeologia teorica, (Le Bussole) Carocci Roma  2016 (2 ed.), 128 pp.

D. Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, Verona: Quiedit 2009, pp. 1-57.

 

B      Preistoria: dal paleolitico superiore all’età del Rame in Europa e in Italia (4 CFU).

D. Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, Verona: Quiedit 2009, pp. 55-71 (evoluzione del genere Homo); 106-146 (paleolitico: arte figurativa; neolitico in Europa), 99-110 (Età del Rame in Europa), 287-307 (introduzione alla protostoria europea).

 A. Cazzella G. Recchia, Alle origini delle diseguaglianze, Torino: Einaudi 2021, pp. 270.

 

C      Protostoria della Sicilia e dell’Egeo: L’Età del Bronzo in Italia e Grecia (3 CFU).

G. Castellana, La Sicilia nel II millennio a.C., Sciascia editore, Caltanissetta 2002, pp. 1-158.

G. Castellana, La Sicilia del Tardo Bronzo, Agrigento 2014, 147 pp.

 

Per ulteriori approfondimenti: M. Vidale, Che cosa è l’Etnoarcheologia?, Carocci 2004 (Le Bussole), 128 pagine

 

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.