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KAR / ENE
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAR
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ENE
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Academic Year
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2023/2024
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Title
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Archaeology of European Eneolithicum
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Form of course completion
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Exam
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
3
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
2
[Hours/Week]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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Yes in the case of a previous evaluation 4 nebo nic.
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Summer semester
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0 / -
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0 / -
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0 / -
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / -
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2 / -
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0 / -
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Semester taught
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Winter + Summer
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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Czech
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
0
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Evaluation scale |
1|2|3|4 |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
Yes
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
1|2|3|4 |
Substituted course
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KAR/KNS
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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N/A
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
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Course objectives:
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The lecture introduces students to the current perspectives on society in the early and late Stone Age. Emphasis will be put on presenting archaeological records that document the symbolic, religious and ritual ideas of communities, and the structure and organisation of society in the early and late Stone Age.
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Requirements on student
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Oral exam.
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Content
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1) Clothing and folk costumes in the Stone Age. 2) Body decoration and tattoos. 3) Burial rituals. 4) Ritual districts - fortification, megalithic buildings. 5) Male and female world in the Stone Age. 6) Rituals of the Stone Age. 7) The symbolic nature of decorating ceramics. 8) Social identity. 9) Social structure. 10) The mobility of Stone Age populations.
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
Květina, Petr; Řídký, Jaroslav,; Končelová, Markéta,; Burgert, Pavel,; Šumberová, Radka,; Pavlů, Ivan,; Brzobohatá, Hana,; Trojánková, Olga; Vavrečka, Petr,; Unger, Jiří. Minulost, kterou nikdo nezapsal. 2015. ISBN 978-80-7465-173-1.
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Basic:
Bradley, Richard. The significance of monuments : on the shaping of human experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe. London : Routledge, 1998. ISBN 0-415-15204-6.
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Recommended:
Sherratt, A. G. : Plough and pastoralism: aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution. In: I. Hodder - G. Isaac - N. Hammond (eds.), Pattern of the Past: Studies in Honour of David Clark, 261-305.. Cambridge, 1981.
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Recommended:
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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Recommended:
Rojo-Guerra, M. A. et al. Beer and Bell Beakers: Drinking Rituals in Copper Age Inner Iberia, Proceedings of the Praehistoric Society 72, 243-265.. 2006.
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Recommended:
Řídký, J. a kol. Big Men or Chiefs?: Rondel Builders of Neolithic Europe. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow.. 2019.
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Recommended:
Spasić, M. Cattle to settle - bull to rule: on bovine iconography among Late Neolithic Vinča culture communities. Documenta Praehistorica XXXIX: 285-309.. 2012.
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Recommended:
Andersen, N. H. Causewayed camps of the Funnel Beaker Culture (Tragtbagerkulturens store samlingspladser). In: Hvass - Storgaard (eds.), Digging into the Past, Aarhus, 100-103.. 1993.
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Recommended:
Zápotocký, M. Cimburk und die Höhensiedlungen des frühen und älteren Äneolithi- kums in Böhmen. Mit Beiträgen von Lubomír Peške und Slavomil Vencl. Památky archeo- logické - Supplementum 12.. Praha, 2000.
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Recommended:
Neustupný, Evžen. Community areas of prehistoric farmers in Bohemia. 1991.
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Recommended:
Sherratt, A. G. ?Cups that cheered'. e Introduction of Alcohol to Prehistoric Europe. In: Waldren, W. H. - Kennard, R. C. (eds.), Bell Beakers of the Western Mediterranean, e Oxford International Conference 1986, British Archaeological Reports (IS) 331, vol. 1-2. 81-114.. Oxford, 1987.
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Recommended:
Reiter, S. Die beiden Michelsberger Anlagen von Bruchsal \Aue\ und \Scheelkopf\: Zwei ungleiche Nachbarn. Stuttgart.. 2005.
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Recommended:
Strobel, M. Die Schussenrieder Siedlung Taubried I (Bad Buchau, Kr. Biberach): Ein Beitrag zu den Siedlungsstrukturen und Chronologie des frühen und mittleren Jungneolit- hikums in Oberschwaben. Stuttgart. 2000.
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Recommended:
Neustupný, E. Enclosures and fortifcations in Central Europe. In: A. Harding - S. Sievers - N. Venclová (eds.), Enclosing the past: Insight and outside in praehistory. 1-4.. Shefield, 2006.
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Recommended:
Whittle, Alasdair. Europe in the Neolithic : the creation of new worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-44920-0.
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Recommended:
Bradley, R. (ed.). Interpreting the Axe Trade: Production and Exchange in Neolithic Britain. Cambridge University Press.. Cambridge, 2005.
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Recommended:
Krištuf, P. - Švejcar, O. Kontinuita pohřebních areálů: struktura a vývoj pohřebiště ve Velkých Žernosekách - e continuity of burial grounds: the structure and development of the cemetery in Velké Žernoseky (Northwest Bohemia), Archeologické rozhledy 65, 599-617.. 2013.
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Recommended:
Zápotocký, Milan; Zápotocká, Marie. Kutná Hora - Denemark : hradiště řivnáčské kultury (ca 3000-2800 př. Kr.) = Kutná Hora - Denemark : ein Burgwall der Řivnáč-Kultur (ca. 3000-2800 v. Chr.). Praha : Archeologický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 2008. ISBN 978-80-86124-84-1.
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Recommended:
Haak, W. et al. Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe, Nature 522, 207-211.. 2015.
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Recommended:
Seidel, U. Michelsberger Erdwerke im Raum Heilbronn: Neckarsulm-Obereisesheim "Hetzenberg" und Ilsfeld "Ebene", Lkr. Heilbronn, Heilbronn-Klingenberg "Schlossberg", Stadtkreis Heilbronn. eiss:. Stuttgart, 2008.
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Recommended:
Kuijt, I. Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic; Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Assoc 10, 80-99..
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Recommended:
Oliva, M. Pravěké hornictví v Krumlovském lese.. Brno, 2011.
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Recommended:
O´Brien, W. Prehistoric copper mining in Europe: 5500 - 500 BC.. Oxford: OUP, 2015.
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Recommended:
Hodder, I. (ed). Religion in the emergence of civilization: Çatal Hüyük as a case study, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.. Cambridge, 2010.
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Recommended:
Kristiansen, K. et al. Retheorizing mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe. Antiquity 91, 334-347..
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Recommended:
Sherratt, A. G. Sacred and profane substances: the ritual use of narcotics in later Neo- lithic Europe, in Garwood, P. - Jennings, D. - Skeates, R. - Toms, J. (ed.), Sacred and profane: proceedings of a conference on archaeology, ritual and religion: 50-64. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oxford: Oxford University Press., 1991.
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Recommended:
Gibson, A. Stonehenge and Timber Circles. Tempus.. 2005.
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Recommended:
Pearson, M. P. et al. The Beaker People: Isotopes, Mobility and Diet in Prehistoric Britain (Prehistoric Society Research Papers).. 2018.
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Recommended:
Midgley, Magdalena S. The monumental cemeteries of prehistoric Europe. Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2005. ISBN 0-7524-2567-6.
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Recommended:
Neustupný, E. The Origin of Megalithic Architecture in Bohemia and Moravia. In: P. Biehl - F.Bertemes - H.Meller (eds.), e Archaeology of Cult and Religion, 203-207.. Budapest, 2001.
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Recommended:
Kelley, L. H. War Before Civilization: the Myth of the Peaceful Savage.. Oxford, 1996.
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Recommended:
Heath, J. M. Warfare in Neolithic Europe : an archaeological and anthropological analysis. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Archaeology.. South Yorkshire, 2017.
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On-line library catalogues
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Time requirements
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All forms of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Preparation for an examination (30-60)
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52
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Contact hours
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26
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Total
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78
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Prerequisites
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Knowledge - students are expected to possess the following knowledge before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
To characterize individual periods of prehistory |
To summarize the importance of archaeology and history for understanding the past |
Skills - students are expected to possess the following skills before the course commences to finish it successfully: |
To understand a scientifically-structured lecture |
To use adequate terminology |
To use electronic information sources |
To understand a scientific text in English/German |
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Learning outcomes
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Knowledge - knowledge resulting from the course: |
To summarize the issue of archaeological resources and their importance for understanding and reconstructing of life conditions in Europe |
To summarize of the chronology of Eneolithic in Central Europe |
To summarize the status of preserved immovable monuments of the monitored period |
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 |
Skills - skills resulting from the course: |
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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Assessment methods
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Knowledge - knowledge achieved by taking this course are verified by the following means: |
Combined exam |
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Teaching methods
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Knowledge - the following training methods are used to achieve the required knowledge: |
Lecture |
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