2024

Megalithic Culture

Name: Megalithic Culture
Code: HIS13481M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1) Understanding of diversity at the national and regional megalithism:
- the architectures;
- the implantations and the spaces;
- the spoils;
- the chronologies;
- the raw materials;
2) Understanding of the worldwide megalithic phenomenon

Contents

1. The Megalithism
- Megalithism and monumentality.
- Megalithism and symbolic behavior.
2. The emergence and evolution of megalithism: the different explanatory models.
3. Non-funeral megalithism.
- The different types of monuments.
- The interpretative models.
4. The funerary megalithism.
- The different types of monuments.
- The interpretative models.
5. Megalithism in the world
- The different types of monuments.
- The interpretative models.

Teaching Methods

Teaching materials, including handouts, thematic websites and scientific articles will be distributed in and posted on a dedicated Moodle page. Seminars by Invited scholars specialized in Megalithism will be given and assessed via essays by students.
Presentation of the different types of megaliths with readings, commented, some texts / works of art, among learners.
Visit of monuments in the region.

The assessment, continuous, should be implemented through the development of an individual work and participation in class.

Teaching Staff

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