75782 - Prehistoric Ecology (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student, through a multidisciplinary approach, learns and knows the chronological framework of the Quaternary. He/She is able to analyze the relationship between people and the environment during the past, in particular the influence of climate changes on human evolution. The student, at the end of the course, acquires specific skills about the methodologies for the integrated reconstruction of the prehistoric paleoenvironment and the interpretation of the settlement choices, the subsistence strategies, resource use and technological innovation.

Course contents

• Human paleoecology and metodology of the paleoecological research
• Quaternary Ecology
• Prehistoric economiy: from foraging to farming
• Archaeological cultures: from Palaeolithic to the beginning of Copper Age in Europe

Readings/Bibliography

D. COCCHI GENICK, Preistoria, QuiEdit 2009

J. DE GROSSI MAZZORIN, Archeozoologia, Laterza 2009

A. GIROD, Appunti di Archeomalacologia, All'Insegna del Giglio, 2015

G. DI PASQUALE, Che cos'è l'archeobotanica, Carocci 2011.

Teaching methods

The course is based on lectures dealing with the program topics.

Assessment methods

The evaluation consists of an oral exam on the course program. The student must show that he/she has acquired adequate general and systematic knowledge of the various topics and has mastered the scientific and methodological tools necessary for a reasoned analysis of the program subjects.

Gradation of the final grade

A very thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with high skills of critical analysis, ability to use specific archaeological terminology will be evaluated with the maximum score (30-30 cum laude).

A thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course program, together with good analytical and critical skills, proficiency of specific archeological terminology will be evaluated with good marks (27-29).

Relatively adequate preparation and sufficient analytical skills, even if not particularly articulated, expressed in correct language, will produce fair evaluations (23-26).

Sufficient preparation and analytical skills, expressed in barely formally correct language, will determine the sufficiency (18-22)

Teaching tools

Lectures will be illustrated with powerpoint presentations

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Curci