PAPVB_17 Minoan Archaeology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (lecturer), prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Valášková
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:30–14:05 K22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
Course objectives
This course provides an outline of the history of Minoan studies; it introduces the material culture, bibliography, contemporary research questions, problems, and methodologies. It also discusses the interpretive models in their historical contexts.
Syllabus
  • I. History of research 1. Minos Kalokerinos and Arthur Evans – Minoan archaeology of the 19th century 2. Harriet Boyd, Edith Hall and Richard Seager – beginning of the 20th century 3. Spyridon Marinatos and Nikolaos Platon – Greek archaeology from 1930’s to 1950’s 4. John Pendlebury, Franz Shachermeyer – British versus German archaeology (and politics) before World War 2 5. Positivistic approaches, not only in the archaeology of the 1960’s and 1970’s 6. ‘Golden age’ of Minoan archaeology (1980’s – 2010) and archaeology in the period of global crisis II. Cretan prehistory 7. Plakias, Knossos stratum X: First ‘Cretans’ – (Geology; Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic) 8. Prepalatial period 9. Protopalatial period 10. Neopalatial period 11. Final Palatial period 12. Disintegration of the palatial system and the beginning of the Iron Age
Literature
  • Driessen, J. And C. F. MacDonald, 1997: The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete before and after the Santorini Eruption. Aegeum 17. Liege and Austin.
  • Evans, A. J. 1921 -1935: The Palace of of Minos at Knossos I – IV. London.
  • Branigan, K. 1988: Pre-palatial: The Foundations of Palatial Crete. A Survey of Crete in the Early Bronze Age. Amsterodam.
  • Klontza-Jaklova, V. 2008: Datierung der Katastrophe von Santorini. Kurze Zusammenfassung des bisherigen Standes der Forschung und vorherrschende Tendenzen. Anodos. Trnava.
  • Betancourt, P. P. 1985: The History of Minoan Pottery. Princeton.
  • Rackham, O. and J. Moody, 1966: The Making of Cretan Landscape. Manchester.
  • Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 1994: The Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge.
  • Cullen, T. (ed.) 2001: Aegean prehistory: A Review. AJA Suppl. I. Archaeological Institute of America. Boston.
  • The Oxford handbook of the Bronze age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC). Edited by Eric H. Cline. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, xxxiii, 93. ISBN 9780195365504. info
  • The Cambridge companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xxxvi, 452. ISBN 9780521891271. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Assessment methods
For credit obtaining is necessary attendance and an essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
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