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PREHISTORY OF THE AEGEAN SEA AND CYPRUS

Academic Year 2026/2027 - 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

 

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