ARCHAEOLOGY OF PROTOHISTORIC ITALY

In accordance with the Dublin Descriptors, the course provides for the achievement of the following learning objectives:

1) To know the general framework and development of the main cultural groups of the Italian peninsula in the age between the beginning of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age;

2) To know the problems related to settlement systems, territorial organization, economic and symbolic systems.

3) To know how to deal independently with the study and analysis of an archaeological context of the protohistoric period, highlighting the elements that characterize its organization;

4) To know how to communicate the knowledge acquired, deepening the themes that will be presented to the students' attention during the course

Methodology and history of protohistoric research; definitions and concepts.

Chronological development and dating elements.

Archaeological facies: definition and characteristics.

- Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’età del Bronzo e del Ferro. Dalle palafitte a Romolo (2200-700 a. C.). Carocci Editore, Roma 2018

- Renato Peroni, Introduzione alla protostoria italiana, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1994 : pp. 342.

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