AEB_17 The Beginnings of Productive Cultivation in the Near East

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Král (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each even Friday 11:40–14:55 C42
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Požadavky ke kolokviu: znalost látky odpřednášené v rámci výuky, základní orientace v odborné literatuře, studenti by se meli seznámitjak jsou údaje o prednásené problematice presentovány v: Encyklopedie starovekého Predního Východu (viz. literatura)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course description: The concepts Neolithic, neolithization, and productive cultivation, the main centres of neolithization in the world, definition of the Near Eastern zone (the Fertile Crescent) and their environmental conditions, Proto-Neolithic and Early Neolithic civilizations in the Near East, the most recent archaeological discoveries, the invention of agriculture and the domestication of animals, questions of the diffusion of productive cultivation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Beginnings of menkind and earliest human traces in the Near East until the Mesolithic period (cca 1 000 000 - 10 000 BC). Hunter-gatherer stage of human society. Sites: Ubaidia, Carmel Mountins cemeteries, Belbasi and Beldibi, Shanidar, Zarzi, Palegaura. Natufian culture - time for changes.
  • 2. Pre-pottery Neolithic development (10 000 - 6500 BC). Gatherer and hunter subsistence strategies. Earliest farming and domestication. Natural conditions transformations. Ground stone industry, textile production, first metalurgy. Earliest urbanism. Personal role, its immaterial dimensions (decorations), magic influence (clay figurines). Sites: Jericho-Tell es-Sultan, Ras Shamra VC, Tell Asvad near Damascus, Pre-pottery Hacilar, Catal Hüyük, Cayönü Tapesi, Murajbit, Kermez Dere, Tell Maghzalíja, sites on Deh Luran plains belonging to Bus Mordeh phase, and Ali Koš.
  • 3. Pottery Neolithic (cca 6 500 - 5 500 BC). Combined economic and social model of behaviour. Rituals and ceremonies on massive assembly. Systems of world concepts. Sites: Byblos Néolithique, Ras Shamra VB and VA, sites on Amuq plain (Damascus) of phases A and B, Mersin, pottery Hacilar, Djarmo, Umm Dabaghija, Hassuna and Samarra cultures on sites Jarimtepe I, Tell es-Sauvan a Čóga Mami, sites on Deh Luran plain beloning to Mohammad Džavvar phase.
  • 4. Aeneolithics and intensity economic and natural conditions. Differences from the Neolitic period (cca 5 500 - 3 500 BC).
Literature
  • HELLER, Jan. Encyklopedie starověkého Předního východu. 1. vyd. Praha: Libri, 1999, 447 s. ISBN 80-85983-58-3. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Teaching: 2 hours lecture per week Duration: 1 semester Assessment: Oral examination
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on completion of the course: Informace ke způsobu ukončení viz sylabus.
The course is taught once in two years.
Information on the per-term frequency of the course: každé tři roky.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010.
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