PREHISTORY OF THE AEGEAN SEA AND CYPRUS
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher:
SIMONA VENERA TODARO
Expected Learning Outcomes
1) Knowledge and understanding. Provide students,
through lectures, with the basic notions on the main investigation
methodologies and theoretical approaches used in the study of the prehistory of
Greece and Cyprus and the knowledge of the evolution of human societies from
the upper Paleolithic to the second half of the second millennium BC, choosing
significant case studies for the different periods.
2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding.
Develop the ability to apply theoretical notions and acquire the ability to
read a scientific text and a monument through practical exercises in the
classroom and outside.
3) Autonomy of judgment. Develop in students a
critical approach to texts with systematic comparisons between the description
of monuments and their in situ analysis.
4) Communication skills. Provide students with
specialized vocabulary to enable them to communicate their scientific knowledge
adequately.
5)
Learning skills. Develop autonomy in the ability to identify the most
representative scientific texts and understand them adequately.Course Structure
The course uses lectures for the acquisition of knowledge on Aegean and
Cypriot prehistory, while for the acquisition of skills laboratory activities
will be organized (exercises for the study of ceramics, lithic, animal bones),
and guided tours outside.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites required
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory
Detailed Course Content
The prehistory of the Eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Cyclades, Crete and
Cyprus) from the Upper Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age.
Neolithization; the Bronze Age and the first forms of social complexity
(corridor houses and cretule system); the beginning of the palatial phenomenon
in Crete; the Aegean palaces of recent bronze; Cyprus and the end of the
Mycenaean civilization
Textbook Information
- L. Bombardieri, G. Graziadio, M. Jasink,
Preistoria e protostoria Egea e cipriota, 2015
- L. Bombardieri, G. Graziadio, Cipro. Preistroia
di un’isola mediterranea, 2019
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
