USI, RITI E COSTUMI DELLE SOCIETA' PREISTORICHE

L-ANT/01 - 6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

ORAZIO PALIO


Learning Objectives

To know the prehistoric chronological sequences in Italy and in the other Mediterranean regions.

To know the chronological and spatial framework of the social, economic, and symbolic activities of the prehistoric communities, through the analysis of artefacts and their associations and distributions.

To know how to provide an initial framework of the social and cultural characteristics that regulate the functioning of the prehistoric Italian and Mediterranean societies.


Course Structure

Classroom lectures, case-study presentations by students.

If the conditions of the pandemic situation it, will be planned visits to the Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi” and to prehistoric sites in the territory of Syracuse.

If the course will be taught in mixed or distance mode, the necessary variations could be introduced, in order to respect the program foreseen and reported in the syllabus.



Detailed Course Content

Chronological frame of reference and comparative structure of the cultural development during different periods and in different Mediterranean regions.

Presentation of the main elements characterizing the different phases presented: structure of the society; settlement organization; craft activities; symbolic activities (artistic production, ritual and ceremonial activities).



Textbook Information

1. Andrea Pessina, Vincenzo Tiné, Archeologia del neolitico. L’Italia tra VI e IV millennio a.C., Carocci editore, Roma, 2008

- Cap. 2 : Cronologie e culture, pp. 40-61

- Cap. 3 : Ceramica, pp. 63-81

- Cap. 5 : Strutture di abitato, pp. 137-163

- Cap. 9 : Ideologia e comunicazione simbolica, pp. 245-277

- Cap.10 : Rituali funerari, pp. 279-311.

2. Daniela Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, QuiEdit, Verona, 2009

Cap. 4 : L’età del Rame, pp. 199-285

3. Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’età del bronzo e del ferro. Dalle palafitte a Romolo¸ Carocci editore, Roma, 2010

Cap. 2 : Le regioni centrali e meridionali, pp. 79-169.

4. Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli, Sicani, Siculi, Elimi. Forme di identità, modi di contatto e processi di trasformazione, Longanesi, Milano 2003

Parte I. Dalla tarda età del Bronzo alla prima età del Ferro (XIII-VIII secolo), pp. 13-128.

 

Supplementary texts will be indicated during the lessons

 

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