Pre- and Proto-Historical Archaeological Settlements

Code: HIS14675M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

This Curricular Unit aims to study the genesis and evolution of the first peasant societies up to the agro-metallurgical societies, at European level, but with special focus on the territory of Central and Southern Portugal, in a chronology between the 6th and 1st millennia BC.

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

12. Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

15. Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

Understand the strategies of settlement of pre and proto historic communities in southwestern iberian peninsula. It is intended that the students can identify the main features of different habitats, from the Paleolithic Age to the Metal depending on the geomorphological characteristics of the landscape.

1. Deployment
a) The intricacies of water lines
b) Natural shelters
c) The hills
d) The plains
2. Defensibility of some places, supported or not, by defensive systems marked the landscape especially after the Neolithic period.
3. Housing structures
4. Materials and cronologys
Understanding the various types of habitat and estates taking into account their chronology and the landscape in which they belong is the essence of the program of this discipline.

Teaching Methods

Presentation by the teacher of theoretical concepts, definitions, methodologies, and case studies, using analysis of texts, images, cartography, artifacts/ecofacts, and digital resources. Sessions are accompanied by student engagement through a dialogic approach to learning or the organisation of debate sessions involving students. In addition to the case studies presented by the professor, experts may be invited to enrich the content and program diversity, thus also adapting the program content to the main interests of students and contributing to a greater articulation between teaching and research.

Assessment

Assessment will be carried out through the assessment of an individual's work (oral 40%; written 50%) and participation (10%). Final assessment by exam (100%).