FF:PAPVA_01 Introduction - Course Information
PAPVA_01 Introduction to archaeology of the Near East
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2010
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/1. 4 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. PhDr. Petr Charvát, DrSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Katarína Válová - Timetable
- Thu 15. 4. 10:00–14:55 K22, Thu 22. 4. 10:00–14:55 K22, Thu 29. 4. 10:00–14:55 K22, Thu 6. 5. 10:00–14:55 K22, Thu 13. 5. 10:00–14:55 K22, Thu 20. 5. 10:00–14:55 K22
- 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
- Prehistoric Archaeology of Near East (programme FF, B-HI)
- Prehistoric Archaeology of Near East (programme FF, B-HS)
- Course objectives
- This course will provide the students with review of the basic fatures of development of Near Eastern archaeology.
- Syllabus
- The beginnings in the 19th century (english and french researches).
- The birth of field archaeology in the Near East after 1920: Leonard Woolley and his school.
- French and German excavations between the two world wars.
- The birth of Near Eastern archaeology as a historical discipline: Henri Frankfort
- Post-1945 developments: "interdisciplinary and problem-oriented" approach: Robert and Linda Braidwood, and the dynamics of historical development.
- Post-1945 developments: "longue durée" structures and their research: Frank Hole.
- Literature
- Thomas E. Levy (ed.): The Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, London 1995.
- Marion V. Cutting: The Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic Farmers of Central and Southwest Anatolia – Household, Community and the Changing Use of Space (BAR International Series 1435), Oxford 2005.
- The archaeology of the Society in the Holy land
- Frank Hole: Archaeology of Western Iran – Settlement and Society: From Prehistory to the Islamic Conquest, New York 1987.
- Peter Akkermans, Glenn Schwartz: The Archaeology of Syria – From complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies [c. 16,000-300 BC], Cambridge 2003.
- Chris Scarre (ed.): The Human Past, London 2005.
- CHARVÁT, Petr. Mesopotamia before history. Rev. and updated ed. London: Routledge, 2002, 281 s. ISBN 0415251044. info
- PAPOUŠEK, Dalibor. Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyklopedie starověkého Předního východu (Jiří Prosecký (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Ancient Near East). Religio : revue pro religionistiku. Brno: Česká společnost pro studium náboženství, 1999, vol. 7, No 2, p. 215-217. ISSN 1210-3640. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures with class discussion
- Assessment methods
- examination - written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
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