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Lecturer(s)
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Krištuf Petr, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Basic topics: 1) Basic characteristics of the Chalcolithic 2) Role of copper in the Chalcolithic society 3) Residential areas and forms of settlement 4) Chalcolithic agriculture 5) Burial rites 6) Supra-community areas - the significance of ditch enclosures 7) Violence and warfare in the Chalcolithic 8) Exploitation of raw materials and long-distance contacts 9) Drinking rituals 10) Clothing, costume and identity 11) Chalcolithic society
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 15 hours per semester
- Contact hours
- 39 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 50 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| To characterize individual periods of prehistory |
| To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
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| To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
| To read and to understand a scientific text in Czech |
| To use adequate terminology in Czech |
| To use electronic information sources |
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| Knowledge |
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| To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in the Bohemian Eneolithic, and, partially, in Europe |
| To summarize of the chronology of Eneolithic in Bohemia and Central Europe |
| To summarize the status of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period |
| To summarize material culture in the Bohemian Eneolithic |
| To have an overview of settlement strategies of individual archaeological cultures |
| To give examples of symbolic human behaviour in the Eneolithic, and its archaeologically intelligible manifestation |
| To characterize the source base for the observed period |
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| To assign the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods chronologically |
| To interpret the artefacts forming the basic part of material culture in the monitored periods functionally |
| To evaluate available information on monitored issues critically |
| To demonstrate social and cultural changes of chosen Eneolithic artifacts individually |
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| Lecture with visual aids |
| Practicum |
| Self-study of literature |
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| Combined exam |
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Recommended literature
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Krištuf, P. a kol. Arény předků. Posvátno a rituály na počátku eneolitu = Ancestral arenas: Cult and ritual at the begining of the Eneolithic period. Plzeň ZČU, 2019.
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Neustupný, Evžen. Die Besiedlung Böhmens im Äneolithikum, Praehistorica 15, str. 81-84. Praha Univerzita Karlova, 1989.
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Neustupný, Evžen et al. Archeologie pravěkých Čech. 4, Eneolit.. Praha: Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 2008.
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Neustupný, Evžen. K matematické analýze pravěkých pohřebišť, Současné úkoly československé archeologie, str. 190-193.. Praha Archeologický ústav AV ČR, 1981.
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Neustupný, Evžen. Metoda archeologie. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7380-075-8.
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O´Brien, W. Prehistoric copper mining in Europe: 5500 - 500 BC.. Oxford: OUP, 2015.
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Strobel, Michael. Die Schussenrieder Siedlung Taubried I : (Bad Buchau, Kr. Biberach) : ein Beitrag zu den Siedlungsstrukturen und zur Chronologie des frühen und mittleren Jungneolithikums in Oberschwaben. Stuttgart : Theiss, 2000. ISBN 3-8062-1494-8.
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