Aim of the course is to
offer the more advanced research lines on the study of ancient artefacts in a
ancient Mediterranean framework trying to investigate how was the use of a
household in Classical Antiquity. Artefacts were used for the storing of foodstuffs,
the cooking and serving of meals, the drinking of wine and other beverages etc.
Vessels of fired clay shatter easily, but their sherds are nearly indestructible
and hence ubiquitous; they bear a multitude of messages, which - if decoded -
illuminate aspects of history, notably economic exchanges and consumption
in ancient times, that written sources keep us in the dark about. The course
offers advanced perspectives on the analyses of some case studies
(archaeological excavations, surveys, etc.) that use a detailed reading of
technological, ethnographical, anthropological and geographical models in order
to recostruct long periods of life of the ancient societies. The main aim is to
create a platform for an integrated approach to the subject through the
application of innovative interdisciplinary research. The lessons will diplay
how rich and varied are the studies on the material culture assemblages and its
associated activities in order to investigate key elements in the
socio-economic structures of the ancient world, capable of shedding light on a
formative period of ancient history - more specifically on the economic, social
and cultural development of the Mediterranean countries.
Based on the Dublin
descriptors the main aims of the course are:
1) Knowledge and
understanding. Provide students with the knowledge of the development of
methodologies for the analysis of material culture through the reconstruction
of the discipline.
2) Ability to apply
knowledge and understanding. make the student able to consciously undertake
research in the field of Classical archeology, through the acquisition of right
tools and methodologies, both in the archaeological, epigraphic and
bibliographic fields. This goal will be achieved by involving the student in
the preparation of small seminars.
3) Autonomy of judgment.
Develop in students a critical approach to texts and materials with the ability
to move between cultures, behaviors and meanings of the societies of the
ancient world.
4) Communication skills.
Provide students with a specialized and appropriate vocabulary to enable them
to communicate with language properties to the scientific community.
5) Learning skills. Develop autonomy in the ability
to identify the most representative scientific texts and understand them
adequately.
A Material culture: an overview (2CFU)
The field of material
culture studies is undisciplined and multi-strategic and the module does not regard
the zones between typical academic disciplines as grey and shady, but as areas
of potential intellectual development. Material culture studies must be
cross-disciplinary with a strong dialogue among archaeologist, archaeometrist,
anthropologist, ethnographers, geographers, sociologists, art historians.
Testi:
- A. Carandini,
Archeologia e cultura materiale. Dai lavori senza gloria nell'antichità a una
politica dei beni culturali, Bari 1979 (testo fornito dal docente). (da
p. 1 a p. 149)
-
A. Carandini, La forza del
contesto, Bari 2017 (p. 1 – p. 200)
B Archaeology of the production: data
management (2CFU)
Testi:
- R. Francovich - D. Manacorda,
Dizionari di archeologia. Temi, concetti, metodi, Roma-Bari 2000 (solo le voci,
Archeometria; Classificazione e tipologia; Archeologia del Commercio;
Archeologia del consumo; Contesto; Cultura materiale; Archeologia della
produzione; Tecnologie produttive). (15 pp. complessive)
-
N. Cuomo di Caprio, La ceramica in
archeologia. Antiche tecniche di lavorazione e moderni metodi di indagine,
Roma-Bari 2008 (pp. 29-39, 45-50, 141-153, 208-230, 321-352, 571-580, 617-620).
(92 pp. complessive)
- E. Panero, Nella bottega del vasaio romano, in G. Bejor – M. Castoldi
Lambrugo
– E. Panero, Botteghe e artigiani. Marmorari, bronzisti,
ceramisti e
vetrai nell’antichità
classica, Milano 2012, pp. 163-207. (44 pp. complessive)
C The power of the images (2CFU)
Testi:
- Annette Haug,
The Role of Images: theoria and exemplum, L. K. Cline, N. T. Elkins, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and
Iconography, Oxford, 2022, pp. 384 - 404 (PDF fornito dal
docente).
- M. Flecker, Pottery, glass, and
the pictorial habit between late Repubblic and Early Empire, in L. K. Cline, N.
T. Elkins, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography, Oxford, 2022,
pp. 384-404 (PDF fornito dal docente).
- D. Malfitana, Therikleia Poteria. Ateneo (Deipnosofistai XI 470e – 472e) e alcuni kantharoi da un santuario cipriota. Note per una
rilettura, in «Quaderni ticinesi di numismatica
e antichità classiche», XXXIII,
2004, 217-247 (PDF
fornito dal docente). (30 pp.)
- D. Malfitana Fatiche erculee nella ceramica
corinzia di età romana. Coppe abbinate per un ciclo figurativo incompiuto, in «Mélanges de l'École Française de
Rome. Antiquité», 2005, 1, 17-53 (PDF fornito dal docente). (36 pp.)
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All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.