AES_304 The Upper Danube in the Bronze and Hallstatt Age

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Chvojka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Klára Šabatová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Ondřej Chvojka, 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
each odd Wednesday 12:00–15:40 M21
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Předchozí absolvování AEB_A06a Introduction to prehistoric and early historic studies je výhodou, ale nikoliv podmínkou. Předmět je určen zájemcům o problematiku.
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
Course objectives
Goals of the course: South and West Bohemia, Bavaria and Upper Austria from the Bronze Age to the Hallstatt Period, history of research, important localities, material culture, theoretical problems.
Learning outcomes
Student should be able to:
- formulate the knowledge acquired by attending the lectures and by studying the recommended literature on the selected topic and set the results of this study into wider context
- introduce the selected topic to colleagues in the form of a pictorial presentation
- compare scholarly opinions on the selected topic
- lead a well-founded discussion about a special topic
- offer to the colleagues a short written paper about the selected topic (inquiry, theses) including bibliography.
Syllabus
  • 1. Definition of the territory of interest. Natural environment and raw material resources, settlement potential of South and West Bohemia and Upper Danube region. Traditions of Late Stone Age. Cultural milieu in South and West Bohemia and in the Bavarian and Upper Austrian Danube region in Late and Final Eneolithic.
  • 2. The origins of Bronze Age in the wider Upper Danube region, the issue of survival of Eneolithic traditions until the beginning of the Bronze Age
  • 3. Early Bronze Age, the problem of Straubing Culture, South Bohemian group of Únětice Culture and absence of settlement in West Bohemia.
  • 4. Copper and bronze metallurgy in the Upper Danube region, raw material resources, their exploitation, distribution etc. The problem of so-called raw material hoards (deposits of currency bars and rib ingots). Spectral analyses of bronze artefacts from the area of interest.
  • 5. The end of Early and beginning of Middle Bronze Age and the so-called Maďarovce-Věteřov intrusion in South Bohemia, so-called pre-tumulus period in West Bohemia.
  • 6. The period of Tumulus cultures of the Middle Bronze Age, so-called Bohemian-Palatinate Tumulus Culture and its relations to Middle Danube Tumulus Culture and Württemberg Tumulus Culture.
  • 7. The beginning of the Urnfield period. The problem of transition horizons BC2/D and the Riegsee horizon. Definition of Upper Danube Urnfields and their relation to surrounding cultural complexes.
  • 8. Late Bronze Age, the problem of so-called Knovíz and Milavče Cultures and their connections to the Danube region. The situation in Bavaria, Upper Austria and Alpine regions.
  • 9. Final Bronze Age. Considerable decrease in settlement in South Bohemia, discontinuity of settlement in West Bohemia and culmination of settlement activities in the Bavarian and Upper Austrian Danube region.
  • 10. Transition from the Bronze Age to the Hallstatt Period. The problem of continuity or discontinuity of development. Evidence of eastern nomadic cultures in the Upper Danube region (so-called Thracian-Cimmerian influences).
  • 11. Hallstatt Period in South and West Bohemia and the adjacent Danube region, the so-called West Hallstatt cultural sphere.
  • 12. Late Hallstatt Period and transition to the La Tène Period. The problem of social stratification and long-distance contacts (Amber Road etc.) of the area in question. Collapse of continuous development at the end of stage LT A and discontinuity until the subsequent Middle La Tène Period.
Literature
    required literature
  • CHVOJKA, Ondřej. Jižní Čechy v mladší a pozdní době bronzové. Edited by Zdeněk Měřínský - Jan Klápště. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 485 s. ISBN 9788021049215. URL info
  • JIRÁŇ, Luboš. Archeologie pravěkých Čech – Svazek 5: Doba bronzová. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, v.v.i., 2008, 265 pp. ISBN 978-80-86124-78-0. info
  • VENCLOVÁ, Natalie. Archeologie pravěkých Čech – Svazek 6: Doba halštatská. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, v.v.i., 2008, 173 pp. ISBN 978-80-86124-79-7. info
    recommended literature
  • CHVOJKA, Ondřej, Petr KRIŠTUF and Ladislav RYTÍŘ. Barrow cemeteries in the Písek district. Edited by Jiří Fröhlich - Jan Michálek. České Budějovice: Jihočeské muzeum, 2009, 167 s. ISBN 9788087311028. info
  • CHVOJKA, Ondřej and Jan MICHÁLEK. Sídelní areály I-IV ze střední doby bronzové u Radčic-Vodňan, okres Strakonice : výzkumy a povrchové sběry na stavbě silnice v letech 1994-2004 : popis situací, objektů a katalog nálezů. České Budějovice: Jihočeské muzeum, 2004, 167 s. ISBN 8086260402. info
  • Pravěké dějiny Čech. Edited by Radomír Pleiner - Alena Rybová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 1978, 870 s. URL info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in three years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021.
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