Unit PROTOHISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A002543
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Polcaro
- Teachers
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- Andrea Polcaro
- Hours
- 36 ore - Andrea Polcaro
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline relative ai beni culturali
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is aimed to give a basic knowledge of the Protohistory of the Mediterranean, in relationship to the islands and the seashores between East and West between the 9th and the 2nd millennia BCE. Special attention will be given to the Levant, birth place of the first new production experiences of the Neolithic Period. The greater island of the Mediterranean (as such as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sardinia, Sicily) will be also analyzed, as points of encounter and re-elaboration of different cultures and basis for the formation of future classical civilizations. Furthermore, the course will include a historical-geographical framework of the various cultural areas and an analysis of the settlement aspects, the evolution of subsistence economies and ideological and religious changes also reflected in the iconographical choices.
- Reference texts
- Cyprian Broodbank, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla preistoria alla nascita del mondo classico, Einaudi Editore 2015 (Capitoli 3-8).
During the lessons supplementary texts and eventually further texts for workers, non-attending students, with disabilities and/or with DSA students will be uploaded on the Unistudium web site. - Educational objectives
- Basic knowledge of the Prehistory and the Protohistory of the Mediterranean area between the Neolithic and Iron Age. As part of the BA, the course provides the basic historical knowledge to understand the urban transformations of the future Classical cultures.
- Prerequisites
- To understand the topics covered in the course it is sufficient to have the basic historical notions acquired during the school.
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons and guided tours to the regional museums and archaeological parks with prehistorical and protohistorical archeological evidences.
- Other information
- Attendance at the course will give the opportunity to apply for participation in the teacher's research activities, in particular the archaeological surveys in the area of Panicale, Umbria.
The students will be received, by sending an email to the professor, in his office located in Via dell'Aquilone 7. - Learning verification modality
- The assessment methods consist of a single oral exam. The exam will take into account the ownership of language and it will verify the knowledge learned about the archaeological evidences and their usefulness for understanding the economic and socio-cultural dynamics behind the great historical changes that occurred in the Mediterranean area.
Please report to the professor eventual certified disabilities and/or DSA before the exam in order to proper change the assessment method. - Extended program
- The course will begin deepening the birth of herding, agricolture and village life in the Neolithic Period, followed by an analysis of the historical dynamics which will bring to the appearance of the Proto-urban culture of the Copper Age. Furthermore, both architectural traditions, such as megalithism, an important element of civilizations that developed along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, and material culture, already an expression of strong cultural contacts, will be studied in depth for this period of transition. These regional connections leaded the early development of navigation techniques, which allowed the colonization of the archipelagos. Finally, the course will address the fully urban developments that occurred in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, up to the appearance of the Phoenician civilization in the Iron Age, after the upheavals caused by the arrival of the Sea Peoples at the end of the second millennium. B.C.
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