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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAR
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NE
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Archaeology of European Neolithicum
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
3
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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2 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
1|2|3|4 |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
1|2|3|4 |
Substituted course
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None
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The course aims to acquaint the audience with the Neolithic era. Geographically, this topic is confined to Europe with emphasis on areas that are related to the then cultural development of our lands. Although students will obtain a basic time-space overview of the archaeological categorisation of neolite in Europe, it is not the primary goal of the course. That remains to be the introduction to the chief thematic areas connected with neolite alongside appropriate methodological means. Such thematic areas associated with primary records of archaeological insight (ceramics, stone tools, houses, etc.) will be introduced on a cross-section basis, including the interpretation based on inter-cultural ethnographic comparison. Students trained in this course will acquire a broad outline that concentrates on the practical research of the Neolithic era and current issues related to it.
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Requirements on student
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Oral exam.
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Content
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1) Chronology and main archaeological cultures I. 2) Chronology and main archaeological cultures II. 3) Neolithic transformation. 4) Territories of long-term transition. 5) Mobility and migration. 6) Dwellings and households. 7) Ceramics. 8) Stone industry, resources and long distance exchange. 9) Subsistence and the archaeology of food. 10) Issues of ritual architecture. 11) Society and identity. 12) War and burial rites.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Dietler, Michael; Hayden, Brian. Feasts : archaeological and ethonographic perspectives on food, politics, and power. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. ISBN 1-56098-840-1.
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Basic:
Květina, Petr; Řídký, Jaroslav,; Končelová, Markéta,; Burgert, Pavel,; Šumberová, Radka,; Pavlů, Ivan,; Brzobohatá, Hana,; Trojánková, Olga; Vavrečka, Petr,; Unger, Jiří. Minulost, kterou nikdo nezapsal. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7465-173-1.
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Basic:
Fowler, Chris; Harding, Jan; Hofmann, Daniela. The Oxford handbook of Neolithic Europe. 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-954584-1.
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Recommended:
Řídký, J. a kol. Big Men or Chiefs?: Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.. 2019.
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Recommended:
Gronenborn, D. Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: towards a theory. Documenta Praehistorica 36:97-110.. 2009.
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Recommended:
Whittle, Alasdair. Europe in the Neolithic : the creation of new worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-44920-0.
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Recommended:
Bradley, R. Long houses, long mounds and Neolithic enclosures. Journal of Material Culture 1/2:239-256..
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Recommended:
Bogaard, A. Neolithic farming in Central Europe. An archaeobotanical study of crop husbandry practices. London: Routledge.. 2004.
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Recommended:
Whittle, Alasdair. The archaeology of people : dimensions of Neolithic life. London : Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-30408-3.
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Recommended:
Hodder, I. 1990. The Domestication of Europe,. Blackwells, London.
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Recommended:
Bickle, P., Cummings, V., Hofmann, D., Pollard J. (eds.). The Neolithic of Europe: papers in honour of Alasdair Whittle. Oxford: Oxbow Books.. 2017.
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Recommended:
Hofmann, D. and Smyth J. Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe. Sedentism, Architecture and Practice.. New York: Springer, 2013.
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Recommended:
Heath, J. M. Warfare in Neolithic Europe : an archaeological and anthropological analysis. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Archaeology.. South Yorkshire, 2017.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Preparation for an examination (30-60)
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52
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Contact hours
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26
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Total
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78
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge - students are expected to possess the following knowledge before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
To characterize individual periods of prehistory |
To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
Skills - students are expected to possess the following skills before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
To use adequate terminology in Czech |
To use electronic information sources |
To understand a scientific text in English/German |
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge - knowledge resulting from the course: |
To summarize of the chronology of Neolithic in Central Europe |
To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in Europe |
To summarize the status of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period |
To have an overview of settlement strategies of individual archaeological cultures |
To give examples of symbolic human behaviour in the Neolithic, and its archaeologically intelligible manifestation |
To characterize the source base for the observed period |
Skills - skills resulting from the course: |
To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods chronologically |
To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods functionally |
To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically |
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Assessment methods
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Knowledge - knowledge achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Oral exam |
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Teaching methods
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Knowledge - the following training methods are used to achieve the required knowledge: |
Lecture |
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