DE4B03 Practice in Archaeology

Faculty of Education
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/80. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Bohuslav Klíma, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jaroslav Novotný (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Bohuslav Klíma, CSc.
Department of History – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jiří Mihola, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Archeological practice freely ties together on subject Practical exercise from archeology. This tuition takes place on the archeological expedition in Znojmo – Hradiště. Students are provided with an opportunity to be actively connected into research process directly in terrain and to broad their knowledge and attainments with practical experience from archeology (conservation, items reconstruction – mainly pottery, making and surface finishing of plaster casts of an important archeological artifacts and keepsakes, technical documentation, drawing, photography taking, plans making, etc.). Simultaneously, the students have an opportunity for cavity understanding of archeological work and for making part in processing of outcomes of terrain research. Goal of the subject is acquiring of basic skills and knowledge that can be used even in pedagogical practice. As the only faculty of education in the Czech Republic has a department of history of faculty of education in Masaryk University potency for doing individual archeological excavations in Znojmo (patent of ministry of culture of the Czech Republic). For attending on these researches are interested not only students of the department but even students from different faculties of the university, different colleges from the Czech Republic and even from abroad (students changing stay on excavations in Austria and France).
Learning outcomes
Under the "Practical Exercises of Archaeology" and "Summer Archaeological Practice", our history students, following the subject of "History of Prehistory", "History of Antiquity" and "History of the Middle Ages", will familiarize themselves with the basics of archaeology, with the fieldwork on our archaeological research place of the Great Moravian Centre in Znojmo-Hradiště and the cabinet processing of the findings and acquired knowledge. This also means the treatment, documentation and restoration of the material culture monuments. We follow up on the rich history of archaeological research, which was first initiated by the teachers of our workplace at Masaryk University. We are the only workplace among the historical institutes and departments of our universities that can independently carry out scientific research work in Znojmo-Hradec. The acquired skills and knowledge of the students will be used well in the further study / orientation in the literature, the creation of a professional text - in bachelor and master's degree studies / as well as in their own pedagogical practice.
Syllabus
  • Practical exercise from archeology in Znojmo - Hradiště.
Literature
  • Náhradní obsah: Časopis Ve službách archeologie I. - VII., ISSN 1802 – 5463
Teaching methods
Lectures, reading
Assessment methods
The subject is going to be finished by credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 2 týdny.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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