Archaeology of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

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Course ID:	3101-DB202B
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.4 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Archaeology of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Name in Polish:	Archeologia neolitu i wczesnej epoki brązu
Organizational unit:	Institute of Archaeology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Zajęcia blokowe dla II roku
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	The lecture aims to introduce students to the issues of research on the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The main fokus is to acquaint students with the current capabilities of interpretation of archaeological evidence associated with genesis and development of the Neolithic in the Near East and Europe.
Short description:	The lecture presents the history of Neolithic communities from the stage of formation of the productiv economy in the Near East trought Europe neolithisation till the creation a central European Early Bronze Age civilization.
Full description:	The lecture consist of two parts. The first part reates to archaeological evidence associated with the transition of the the Near East community from assimilating economy (hunter-gatherers) to farming and the development of the human groups in the early Neolithic in the Near East and South Europe. Will also be highlighted natural determinants of this process and adaptation strategies for the community to different environmental conditions during the early Neolithic. Will also be presented to the Eastern European model of Neolithic forest zone. The second part covers the history of the Middle European societies from the introduction of pottery and farming till the beginning of the Bronze Age. Apart of the characteristics of particular cultures some issues will be discussed separately from regional and chronological perspectives, such as environmental changes, as well as human development in technology, economy, settlement pattern, social organisation, culture mentality and ideology.
Bibliography:	Required literature will be given in class.
Learning outcomes:	a) Knowledge of the cultural situation in the Near East and in Europe in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. b) Basic knowledge of current research issues and new discoveries affecting the development of research on the Neolithic in the Near East and Europe. c) Basic knowledge of community development in the Neolithic period and their strategies to adapt to different environmental conditions in the Near East and Europe. d) Knowledge of the terminology used in the study of Neolithic and early Bronze Age.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Written exam covering the issues of Protoneolithic and early Neolithic in the Near East and issues the subsequent stages of development farming in Europe (with emphasis on the area of the Central European Lowland) to the early Bronze Age.

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