32754 - Prehistory and Protohistory A

Learning outcomes

The course introduces students to Prehistory and Protohistory with particular reference to Italian contexts and to methodological aspects. For a reconstruction of protohistorical societies the course will concern especially the presentation of finding, documentation, analysis of archaeological data together with teorethical concepts. Students will acquire basic information about the study of prehistory and protohistory.

Course contents

The course presents the main characters and the transformations in the Protohistory, with particular reference to the Italian Peninsula.

- Copper Age in Italy: technological innovation and social change.

- Copper Age in Italy: the ideology of warriors through the analysis of funerary aspects, petroglyphs and rock art.

- The Bronze Age: the demographic increase and the resources exploitation.

- The Bronze Age: Terramare, a case study for the analysis of the society.

- The Bronze Age: Chronology and transformations

- Early Iron Age: the metallurgy of iron and the formation of aristocracy.

Readings/Bibliography

Cocchi Genick D. 2009, Preistoria, Quiedit, Verona.

de Marinis R. a cura di, 2014, L’età del Rame. La pianura padana e le Alpi al tempo di Ötzi, Brescia.

Bietti Sestieri A.M. 2010, L'Italia nell'età del Bronzo e del Ferro, Carocci, Roma 2010.

de Marinis R.C. (a cura di) 2000, Il Museo Civico Archeologico Giovanni Rambotti. Una introduzione alla preistoria del lago di Garda, Castiglione delle Stiviere.

Bernabò Brea B., Cardarelli A., Cremaschi M., Le Terramare. La più antica civiltà padana,Catalogo della Mostra, Modena 15 marzo - 1 giugno 1997, Elemond, Milano 1997.

Further texts will be added during the course lessons (single papers of recent editing), available with username and password at AMS Campus - AlmaDL - University of Bologna.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods will include lessons with powerpoint to be considered of primary importance for the comprehension of the discipline. Attending the lessons will be evaluated positively.

Assessment methods

For attending students: direct examination by the teacher. Non attending students are required to agree upon an alternative program with the teacher

During the lessons and in the final examination it will be evacuate the capability to understand general themes and to manage the bibliography, with particolar reference to the geographical environments. The mastery of appropriate language and the ability to present will be evaluated with highest consideration.

The unsuccessful knowledge of chronology, historical and geographical background, inappropriate language will be evaluated negatively.

Teaching tools

Powerpoint presentations will be available at the web site of the teacher.

Links to further information

http://ipotesidipreistoria.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Maurizio Cattani