PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY

Goal of the course is to give the student the basic knowledge of the research methodologies and the theoretical approaches used in the study of prehistory, and will know the outline of the evolution of human societies from the Paleolithic to the I millennium B.C., with special concern for the Italian and Sicilian area, through the analysis of some significant case studies for the different period.

Methodologies of prehistoric research: interpretation of the data in prehistory. Prehistory: the evolution of humans; the development of communities from the Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic; the Neolithic; the Copper Age. Protohistory the second millennium B.C. in Sicily and the Aegean.

Prehistoric archaeology: history of the research. Definition. Dating methods, interpretation methods. Spheres of research and taxonomy. Chronology. Down and evolution of homo. Lithic industries of the Paleolithic. Art of Upper Paleolithic. Mesolithic. The neolithic period in Europe. The neolithic period in Italy. The Copper Age in Europe. The Copper Age in Italy. The Bronze Age: classification, terminology and main cultures. Sicilian Prehistory: the Second Millennium.

A Teoria e metodi della ricerca preistorica; classi di materiali e tecniche di lavorazione: (2 CFU).

E. Giannichedda, Archeologia teorica, Carocci 2002 (Le Bussole), 128 pp.

D. Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, Verona: Quiedit 2009, pp. 1-57.

B Preistoria: dal paleolitico superiore all’età del Rame in Europa e in Italia (4 CFU).

D. Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, Verona: Quiedit 2009, pp. 106-285.

C Protostoria della Sicilia e dell’Egeo: L’Età del Bronzo in Italia e Grecia (3 CFU).

G. Castellana, La Sicilia nel II millennio a.C., Sciascia editore, Caltanissetta 2002, pp. 1-163.

Further readings: M. Vidale, Che cosa è l’Etnoarcheologia?, Carocci 2004 (Le Bussole), 128 pagine

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