AEB_137 Chipped stone industry analysis

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Ludmila Kaňáková Hladíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jitka Šibíčková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 VP
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AEA_55 Material Culture of the Stone Age
Základním předpokladem pro studium v kurzu je zájem o štípanou industrii evropského pravěku a snaha problematice porozumět. Štípaná industrie je specifická skupina hmotné kultury, jejíž analýza vyžaduje, aby si student osvojil nejen základní znalecké a typologické zkušenosti, ale chápal principy technik a metod její výroby a celou šíři jejího operačního řetězce.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Absolvent of this course will able to;
- analyze whatever collection of chipped stone industry regarding techniques and methods of production, morphotypology, and functional analysis;
- determine used raw material and chronological and cultural frame of central europian collections;
- document collection both in database and drawing;
- consider a choice the best methodological tools to explore archaeological data from whatever collection
Syllabus
  • introduction to chipped stone studies (principles, history of research, modern methodology);
  • chipped stone industry raw materials (introductions, classification, raw materials of central Europe, observed characters); determination by water immersion method
  • techniques and methods of chipped stones production;
  • basic description of debitage and cores;
  • dynamic analysis principles, classification by exploitation stage;
  • basic description of tools (observed characters);
  • morphotypological and functional classification of tools; introduction to use-wear analysis
  • basic database description of collection and statistic analysis;
  • introduction to complex dynamic analysis and chaines opératoires;
  • introduction to intrasite, distribution or areal studies of chipped stones (analysis, models);
  • documentation drawing workshop I;
  • documentation drawing workshop II
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Whittaker, J. C. 2007: Flintknapping. Making and Understanding Stone Tools. Austin.
  • Andrefsky, W. Jr. 1998: Lithic, macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge manuals in archaeology. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
  • Inizan, M. L. – Reduron-Ballinger, M. – Roche, H. – Tixier, J. 1999: Technology and terminology of Knapped stones. Nanterre.
  • Přichystal, A. 2009: Kamenné suroviny v pravěku východní části střední Evropy. Brno: Masarykova univerzita.
Teaching methods
Course is leaded as lecture and seminary, only for student with ISP or outcoming students is available as full e-learning. Attention on lectures and seminars is obligatory.;
Course is based on direct physic demonstration of artefacts and collections, practical acquiring of analytical procedures is accented. Course is realised in use-wear laboratory room.
Assessment methods
Course contains 12 lessons. Every lesson contains oral lecture, wide visual presentation, further reading, practice module and feedback test.;
Course is finalized by collective coloquium of expert skills.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=1710
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016.
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