2023

Pre- and Proto-Historical Archaeological Settlements

Name: 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, French
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Curricular unit designed to give specific training to students of Archaeology and Environment.

Sustainable Development Goals

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.

Contents

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

The Classes will be taught through an expository component which will be followed by discussion with students. Whenever possible, classes will be based on the projection of images of archaeological sites and their implantation in the landscape interpreted through the use of different cartography. The study of materals will be carried out in the laboratory.
The evaluation will be carried out through the appreciation of two individual assignments (50% +50%) and participation in the class. Final exame.

Teaching Staff

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