2023
Artistic expressions Pre and Proto-Historic
Name: Artistic expressions Pre and Proto-Historic
Code: HIS12027L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Archeology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, French
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
In this course the students will discuss the origins of the first artistic and symbolic manifestations that characterized the different steps in the evolution of human behaviour. The different artifacts, and methods used in the past will be discussed and contextualized in the archaeological record.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Provide the students the ability to observe, analyze and to identify pre-and proto-historic art and symbolism, as
well as to recognize the artistic manifestations as an important source of study and knowledge of
Pre- and Proto-historical populations. Also to recognize the importance of different materials in the
artistic Portuguese territory for the "reconstruction" of such societies.
well as to recognize the artistic manifestations as an important source of study and knowledge of
Pre- and Proto-historical populations. Also to recognize the importance of different materials in the
artistic Portuguese territory for the "reconstruction" of such societies.
Contents
A
1. Methodological approach to aesthetical analysis: Art as graphic and communicative skill and the basis
of visual construction; perception, representation and linear recreation.
2. Theoretical framework to artistic research: from cultural and sociological original contexts to the study
of spiritual and emotional expression; models, typologies and study-cases in prehistorical times.
B
1. Study methodologies in Pre- and Protohistorical Art: discoveries, researches and concepts;
geographical areas, chronology, archaeo-places and collections;
2. Paleolithic Art and the hunter-gatherer societies: mobile art and Rock art. Techniques, typologies and
materials.
3. The Art of Neolithic and Calcholithic Ages and the productive societies: Macro-schematic, Schematic,
Linear and Geometrical Art; the Levantine Art and its discussion; Art and Megalithism.
4. Proto-historical Art and the development of metallurgic societies: materials and meaning in the
ceramics; symbolism in funerary findings
1. Methodological approach to aesthetical analysis: Art as graphic and communicative skill and the basis
of visual construction; perception, representation and linear recreation.
2. Theoretical framework to artistic research: from cultural and sociological original contexts to the study
of spiritual and emotional expression; models, typologies and study-cases in prehistorical times.
B
1. Study methodologies in Pre- and Protohistorical Art: discoveries, researches and concepts;
geographical areas, chronology, archaeo-places and collections;
2. Paleolithic Art and the hunter-gatherer societies: mobile art and Rock art. Techniques, typologies and
materials.
3. The Art of Neolithic and Calcholithic Ages and the productive societies: Macro-schematic, Schematic,
Linear and Geometrical Art; the Levantine Art and its discussion; Art and Megalithism.
4. Proto-historical Art and the development of metallurgic societies: materials and meaning in the
ceramics; symbolism in funerary findings
Teaching Methods
Teaching will be based on expositive strategies, with the use of resources such as text analysis, images,
cartography and maps and archaeological artifacts. The evaluation will have the continuous assessment
regime (two assessment tests / or an assessment test and a job) or final full-term test examination regime.
cartography and maps and archaeological artifacts. The evaluation will have the continuous assessment
regime (two assessment tests / or an assessment test and a job) or final full-term test examination regime.
Teaching Staff
