- Docente: Maria Teresa Guaitoli
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ANT/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World (cod. 8855)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student achieve a critical awareness
of the History of Archaeology, his methodological development, and
the news theoretical debates, from an early interest in the
antiquities to the current archaeological practice; gain
acquaintance with leading themes and their interpretation in
the studies of the history of archaeology; identify
topics that can be developed and be able to undertake a piece
of independent research.
Course contents
The course is divided in two modules:
1. Guidelines of the archaeology development
- "The present Past" (I. Hodder): the knowledge of the Past as research of the modern, through the history of Archaeology and the achievement of the scientific method
- The differents interpretations of the Antiquity
- Archaeology or "Archaeologies"?
- "Archaeology: the Loss of Innocence" (D.L. Clarke) and the theoretical debate: the New Archaeology, the post-processualism and the news studies
- The news researches: the Gender Archaeology and the global and the planetary Archaeology
- Archaeology as media: archaeology and tourism, archaeology and
the cinema
Readings/Bibliography
1: Guidelines of the archaeology development, compulsory reading (one choice of their books:)
- History of the Archaeology
A. SCHNAPP, La conquista del Passato, Milano 1994
G. PUCCI, Il passato prossimo. Le scienze dell'antichità alle
origini della cultura moderna, Roma 1993
G. CALCANI, Storia dell'archeologia: il passato come ricerca di
attualità , Roma 2007
M. BARBANERA, Storia dell'archeologia classica in Italia: dal 1764 ai giorni nostri, Bari 2015
- The relationship with the Antiquity
J. BOARDMAN, Archeologia della nostalgia. Come i Greci reinventarono il loro passato, Milano 2004
S. SETTIS, Futuro del classico, Torino 2004
- The "differents" Archaeologies
2.: The meaning of the Archaeology in the contemporary society: compulsory reading (one choice of their books:)
- The Theoretical Archaeology:
E. GIANNICHEDDA, Archeologia teorica, Roma 2002
N. TERRENATO (ed.), "Archeologia teorica. X Ciclo di lezioni sulla ricerca applicata in Archeologia. Certosa di Pontignano (Siena) 9-14 agosto 1999", Firenze 2000
I. HODDER, Reading the Past: current approaches to interpretation in archaeology, Cambridge 2003; or IDEM, The present Past: an introduction to anthropology for archaeologists, London 1982
M. RAMAZZOTTI, Archeologia e semiotica: linguaggi, codici, logiche e modelli, Torino 2010
- News researchs:
D. MANACORDA, Lezioni di Archeologia, Roma 2008
M. CUOZZO, A. GUIDI, Archeologia delle identità e delle differenze, Roma 2013
M. O.H. CARVER, Making Archaeology happen. Design versus Dogma, London 2013
- Archaeologiy and media-system:
N. HIMMELMANN, Utopia del passato, Bari 1981
M. MELOTTI, Mediterraneo tra miti e turismo. Per una sociologia del turismo archeologico, Milano 2007
M. MELOTTI, Turismo archelogico: dalle piramidi alle Veneri di plastica, Milano 2008
G. PUCCI, I padri di Indiana Jones: prolegomeni ad ogni archeologia futura che voglia presentarsi come mito, in "Studi urbinati di cultura classica", 64, 1991, pp. 247-273
F. SLAVAZZI, L'immagine dell'antico nel Fellini-Satyricon, in Fellini-Satyricon. L'immginario dell'antico, R. DE BERTI, E. GAGETTI, F. SLAVAZZI (eds.), Milano 2009, pp. 59-92
E: GAGETTI, La percezione dell'antico. I Romani di Fellini-Satyricon tra Musei Capitolini e "Harpers Bazaar", in Fellini-Satyricon. L'imaginario dell'antico, R. DE BERTI, E. GAGETTI, F. SLAVAZZI (eds.), Milano 2009, pp. 165-252
E. THEODORAKOPOULOS, Ancient Rome at the cinema: story and spectacle in Holliwood and Rome, Bristol Phoenix 2010
C. DE MITRI, L'archeologo di celluloide.Presenze archeologiche nel cinema occidentale del XX secolo, pdf on-line
E. MOORMANN, Pompeii's Ashes. The reception of the cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music and Drama, Berlin and Boston 2015
In case, to depeen through the lectures:Il mondo dell'archeologia, vol. 1, Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma 2002
Other bibliography, during the lessons
All texts to suggest, are available in the library of the Department of the History and Cultures -DiSCi - Archaeology SectionTeaching methods
Conventional Lessons, seminars and workshop integrated with a lectures and visit to a musems and archaeological sites
Assessment methods
Assessment is by oral examination. This usually consists of
questions, some pertaining to the overview lecture part
and reading, and others related to specific topics examined
in the course. The examination is intended to assess the level of
knowledge and understanding gained by students.
In order to enhance skills and interests of the
students, teaching will be structured on a seminar
basis. To this purpose, students may also elect to
deliver seminar papers or hand in written essays on specific
individual research topics.
The assessment will thus consider the student's:
- knowledge and understanding of the topics covered;
- ability to summarise and analyse themes and concepts;
- familiarity with the terminology associated with the subject and his ability to use it effectively.
Top marks will be awarded to a student displaying an ability to provide an overall understanding of the topics discussed during the lectures, combined with a critical approach to the material and a confident and effective use of the appropriate terminology
Average marks will be awarded to a student who has memorized the main points of the material and is able to summarise them satisfactorily and provide an effective critical commentary, while failing to display a complete command of the appropriate terminology.
A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the subject, together with a poor command of the appropriate terminology.
The exam sessions are monthly (except August) and distributed approximately between 15 and 20 of each month.
Teaching tools
To use in during to the lessons: slides projector,presentasion (PP), CD-ROM, DVD ; presentation (PP) is at students disposisional.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Maria Teresa Guaitoli