Protohistoric Archaeology of Europe

Code:

ARQU023

Acronym:

ARQPHE

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Heritage Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
ARQU	48	ARQU - Study Plan	1	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Define the concept and realities assignable to Proto-History in European and Mediterranean context;

- Define the cultures and civilizations encompassed in this concept;

- Analyse the socio-economic and cultural processes that occurred in time and space considered;

- Identify major archaeological indicators in order to study these processes.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this Course Unit the students must:

- understand and critically apply the concept of proto-history.

- have a general knowledge of the historical sources related to the discipline.

- know how to work together (and to confront) sources of historical and archaeological nature in the analysis of past realities.

- know the major cultures and civilizations of proto-historic Europe, and identify correctly its main archaeological indicators.

- relate the different cultures and civilizations of proto-historic Europe, explaining their internal and external development frameworks, as well as the contacts and exchanges established between them.

- identify the most representative archaeological materials of this period, and relate them to the various regions analyzed.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not appplicable.

Program

1. Introduction.
1.1 General problematics and historiography.
1.2. The sources: potentialities and limitations. The state of research.

2. Ethnic groups and "cultures" of proto-historic Europe.
2.1 - Clarification of concepts and related issues.
2.2 - The assumptions and limitations inherent to the concepts of ethnography and ethnogenesis.

3. Overview of chronological and cultural developments in Europe during I millennium B.C.
3.1 - The Late Bronze Age transformations.
3.2 - Hallstatt: general defining features.
3.3 - The emergence of "principalities".
3.4 - The migratory flows and the transformations of the late V century B.C. / beginning of IV B.C.
3.5 - La Tène: main artistic expressions.
3.6 - The spatial organization and the modalities of economic, social and symbolic functioning of oppida.
3.7 - The celts: between history and myth. The construction of a "narrative".
3.8 - The roman conquest.

Mandatory literature

Aubet Semmler María Eugenia; Tiro y las colonias fenicias de occidente. ISBN: 84-7423-694-0
Cunliffe, Barry; The ancient celts, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0-19-815010-5
Chic García, G. (Ed.); Historia de Europa (ss. X a.C. - V d.C.), Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2014. ISBN: 8447215636
Cunliffe, Barry (Ed); The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0192854410/9780192854414
Knapp, Bernard; Van Dommelen, Peter; Cambridge Handbook for Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-521-76688-3
Kristiansen, K.; Europe before history, Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0-521-78436-0
Ruiz-Gálvez Priego, M.; Con el fenicio tras los talones: Los inicios de la Edad del Hierro en la cuenca Mediterránea, Bellaterra, 2013. ISBN: 8447215636
Pydyn, A.; Exchange and cultural interactions: a study of long-distance trade and cross-cultural contacts in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Central and Eastern Europe, Archaeopress: Publishers of Academic Archaeology, 1999. ISBN: 1-84171-026-1

Complementary Bibliography

Champion, Timothy; Gamble, Clive; Shennan, Stephen; Whittle, Alasdair; Prehistoric Europe, Academic Press, 1984. ISBN: ISBN: 978-0121675523
Gracia Alonso, F.; Munilla Cabrillana, G.; Protohistoria.Pueblos y culturas en el Mediterrâneo entre los siglos XIV y II a.C., Universitat de Barcelona, 2004. ISBN: 978-84-8338-458-9

Comments from the literature

Additional bibliography will be indicated, if necessary, during the classes.

Teaching methods and learning activities

keywords

Humanities > History > Archaeology

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	108,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Positive classification in the final exam.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final exam classification (on a scale of 0 to 20).

Examinations or Special Assignments

According to the general evaluation rules of the Faculty.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

According to the evaluation modality defined for the Course Unit.

Classification improvement

According to the general rules and to the evaluation modality defined for the Course Unit.