Early Iron Age in Europe WNHS-AR-EIAE
- https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aVl96BJa8EpNmkafbm-iJ21i8YaBC0braaxej2o2jmwo1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=793da2c8-5b84-4462-acf9-49a4dbdf362e&tenantId=12578430-c51b-4816-8163-c7281035b9b3 (term 2023/24_L)
- https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3aVl96BJa8EpNmkafbm-iJ21i8YaBC0braaxej2o2jmwo1%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=793da2c8-5b84-4462-acf9-49a4dbdf362e&tenantId=12578430-c51b-4816-8163-c7281035b9b3 (term 2024/25_L)
The Hallstatt Period in Central Europe between 800 and 450 BCE sees the emergence of new aristocracies using funerary ostentation to legitimize their social status. In the 8th and seventh centuries, grave mounds containing chambers furnished with swords, wagons and large drinking sets characterize an innovative male Elite emerging in South Central Europe. after the collapse of the Urnfield Period social system. In the late seventh to early fifth centuries BCE ostentatious graves, which also include internments of Elite women, show the status of the deceased by including extravagant costume accessories and Mediterranean imports in their assemblages. This is a time of the emergence of the so-called princely seats, proto-urban centres inspired by Mediterranian models. In a broad survey which includes Transdanubia and Silesia in the East Burgundy in the west. The Po basin in the south and the Rhineland in the North. This overview will include dealing with famous cemetery complexes like Sopron, Kleinklein, Wehringen and Mindelheim as well as ostentatious tombs like Kappel, Hohemichele, Hochdorf and Vix. But also the „Princely seats” such as the Heuneburg, Hohen Asperg Mt. Lassois. Throughout we will consider the effects of migration, acculturation trade and social differentiation on the formation of a new epoch in prehistoric Europe.
Student activity / workload in hours:
Participation in lectures: 30 hours
Preparation for lectures and exam: 60 hours
Total hours: 90 hours = 3 ECTS
(in Polish) E-Learning
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Learning outcomes
Student:
- will have organized detailed knowledge of the archeology of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin,
- will have basic knowledge of human development and socio-cultural phenomena occurring in historical communities of various types,
- will have basic knowledge of the raw materials used by ancient communities and the methods of their processing and use,
- will have the ability to understand and analyze socio-cultural phenomena occurring in the past; will be able to identify their causes and effects,
- will be able to recognize various types of cultural products studied archaeologically and carry out their critical analysis and interpretation using typical methods, in order to determine their meanings, social impact and place in the historical and cultural process,
- will be aware of the transdisciplinarity of knowledge in the field of archeology and cultural heritage management and will understand the need for continuous self-education in this field.
Assessment criteria
Lectures are conducted in the form of e-learning in MS-Teams.
Conditions for completing the classes:
1. active participation in classes (possible two absences, the third - even excused, requires additional written work).
2. positive grade for the exam at the end of the course.
Conditions for obtaining a specific grade:
- 2 - student has no basic knowledge of Early Iron Age in Europe,
- 3 - student has basic knowledge of Early Iron Age in Europe,
- 4 - student has deepened knowledge of Early Iron Age in Europe and is able to formulate opinions and discuss a given topic,
- 5 - student has deepened and detailed knowledge of Early Iron Age in Europe and is able to formulate opinions and discuss a given topic.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
Hensel, Witold (ed.).1979. Prahistoria ziem polskich, t. 4, Od środkowej epoki brązu do środkowego okresu lateńskiego, Wrocław.
Krausse, D. Fernández-Götz, M. Hansen, L. and Kretschmer, I. 2016. The Heuneburg and the Early Iron Age Princely Seats: First Towns North of the Alps, Budapest: Archaeolingua.
Cunliffe B. 2008. The Three Hundred Years that Changed the World: 800-500 BC. Chapter 9 in Europe Between the Oceans. Themes and Variations: 9000 BC-AD 1000. New Haven: Yale University Press, p, 270-316.
Pare C. F. E. 1992. Wagons and wagon-graves of the early Iron Age in Central Europe. Oxford.
Ridgway, David and Serra Ridgway Francesca R.( eds.). 1979. Italy before the Romans: the Iron Age, Orientalizing, and Etruscan periods. London: Academic Press.
Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2016. The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe: Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World Routledge.
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