PAPVA_06 Laboratory Practice

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Kateřina Kepáková, DiS. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Šárka Krupičková, Ph.D.
Timetable
Wed 8:20–9:55 pracovna
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Požadavky k zápočtu: - numerické zpracování menších keramických souborů prostřednictvím kódu - samostatné zhotovení jednoduchých odlitků archeologických artefaktů - praktická znalost postupu laboratorního zpracovávání archeologických nálezů z příslušných objektů - zásady inventarizace
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Course description: Training in practical techniques of cleaning, conservation and restoration of archaeological artefacts, especially ceramics, but also including metals and organic materials. The basics of drawing.
Syllabus
  • 1. Types of archaeological relics and materials these were made of. Methods of dealing with archaeological finds and their preservation prior to conservation. Characteristics of organic and inorganic materials. 2. Methods of conservation of individual materials (stone, clay, pottery, metal, bone, wood, textile, leather, glass etc.). An outline of new experimental methods of conservation and restoration. 3.-7. Laboratory practice: washing and drying of pottery fragments, sticking together, completing and painting of pottery. 8.-9. Laboratory practice: casting of small items, preparation of mould and plaster, casting itself. 10.-12. Laboratory practice: principles of primeval finds processing, their classification and recording within settlement features. 13.-15. Utilization of numeric description and practical processing of minor find complexes by means of a code.
Literature
  • PODBORSKÝ, Vladimír. Numerický kód moravské malované keramiky : problémy deskripce v archeologii. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Brně, 1977, 299 s., [4. info
Teaching methods
laboratory practice
Assessment methods
Teaching: 2 hours seminar per week Assessment: Field work
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018.
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