PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY

L-ANT/01 - 9 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

PIETRO MARIA MILITELLO

Detailed Course Content

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 area, through the analysis of some significant case studies for the different period.

Content: 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 Italy and Greece


Textbook Information

A Methods and theory of the archaoelogical Research; materials and techniques (3 ECTS).

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

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

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

B Prehistory: from the paleolithic to the Copper Age in Italy and Europe (2 CFU).

D. Cocchi Genick, Preistoria, Verona: Quiedit 2009, pp. 55-285.

C Protohistory: The Bronze Age in Italy and Greece (3 CFU).

A. M. Bietti Sestieri, L’Italia nell’Età del Bronzo e del Ferro, Carocci (Manuali universitari) 2010, pp. 1-170

C. Gillis, An Introduction to ancient Greece, Lund 2004, pp. 70.


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