KLB_010 Minoan archaeology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Věra Klontza, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Eliška Kazdová, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 12:30–14:05 T218
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
there are 11 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The aim of the coarse is presentation of an overview of contemporary state og the field. After its fulfilment the students should obtain good orientation in bibliography, material culture and main questions.
Syllabus
  • 1. History of research, main bibliography 2. Enviroment and climate - its development 3. Chronology 4. Paleolithic and mezolithic Crete 5. Neolithic Crete 6. Early Bronye Age 7. First Palaces 8. Neopalatial period I(LM IA and Santorini volcano eruption) 9. Neoplaltial period II (LM IB destructions) 10. Late-palatial period (=Mycenaean period) 11. Collapse of palatial system 12. Scripts, mythology and cosmology
Literature
    required literature
  • 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
  • BETANCOURT, Philip P. Introduction to Aegean art. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2007, xx, 212. ISBN 9781931534215. info
    recommended literature
  • Cullen, T. (ed.) 2001: Aegean prehistory: A Review. AJA Suppl. I. Archaeological Institute of America. Boston.
  • Dickinson, O. T. P. K. 1994: The Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge.
  • Rackham, O. and J. Moody, 1966: The Making of Cretan Landscape. Manchester.
  • Evans, A. J. 1921 -1935: The Palace of of Minos at Knossos I – IV. London.
  • Driessen, J. And C. F. MacDonald, 1997: The Troubled Island: Minoan Crete before and after the Santorini Eruption. Aegeum 17. Liege and Austin.
  • KLONTZA, Věra. Problém datování výbuchu santorinského vulkánu v době bronzové (Problem of dating of Santorini vocano Bronze Age eruption). Neograeca Bohemica. Brno: Česká společnost novořeckých studií, 2012, Neuveden, č. 12, p. 57-68. ISSN 1803-6414. info
  • WALLACE, Saro. Ancient Crete : from successful collapse to democracy's alternatives, twelfth to fifth centuries BC. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xxvi, 450. ISBN 9780521112048. info
  • KLONTZA, Věra. Datierung der Katastrophe von Santorini. Kurze Zusammenfassung des bisherigen Standes der Forschung und vorherrschende Tendenzen. (Dating of Santorini Catastrophe. Short Summary of contemporary results of the research.). Anodos. Studies of the Ancient World. Trnava: Trnavská univerzita, 2008, roč. 8, č. 4, p. 13-57. ISSN 1338-5410. info
  • BETANCOURT, Philip P. The history of Minoan pottery. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985, 226 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-03579-6. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture and discussion.
Assessment methods
Participation on classes, fulfilled homeworks and closing exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2016.
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