2024
Archaeology, Theory and Method
Name: Archaeology, Theory and Method
Code: HIS02451L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Archeology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
- To know and identify the main archaeological theories and their methodological impact
- To identify the main steps in the archaeological theory and method, knowing how the main developments were achieved
- To evaluate the forms as the main research is conditioned by subjective situations that can, intentionally or not, be important to the discipline.
- To identify the main steps in the archaeological theory and method, knowing how the main developments were achieved
- To evaluate the forms as the main research is conditioned by subjective situations that can, intentionally or not, be important to the discipline.
Contents
Key concepts: Archaeological Theory; Identitiy; Methodology
1. Conceptual Evolution
2. Archaeology before archaeology
2.1. The world creation as seen in the pre-classical civilizations
2.2. Between History and Ethnography
2.3. The biblical narrative
3. The modern archaeology: antiquarism, romanticism, the connection to the earth sciences
3.1. Between history, anthropology and ethonography
3.2. The development in the field techniques
4. Historical-culturalist Archaeology
4.1. Identity, culture, ethnicity
4.2. Difusionism
4.3. Marxist archaeology
5. "New Archaeology"
5.1. The ecological approach
5.2. The processualist approach
5.3. The experimentalist contribution
6. Post-processualist archaeology
6.1. Post-processualism and the "anarchic approach"
6.2. Structuralism
6.3. Neo-marxist archaeology
6.4. Cognitive and symbolic archaeology
6.5. New approaches
7. Field methods for archaeological excavations
1. Conceptual Evolution
2. Archaeology before archaeology
2.1. The world creation as seen in the pre-classical civilizations
2.2. Between History and Ethnography
2.3. The biblical narrative
3. The modern archaeology: antiquarism, romanticism, the connection to the earth sciences
3.1. Between history, anthropology and ethonography
3.2. The development in the field techniques
4. Historical-culturalist Archaeology
4.1. Identity, culture, ethnicity
4.2. Difusionism
4.3. Marxist archaeology
5. "New Archaeology"
5.1. The ecological approach
5.2. The processualist approach
5.3. The experimentalist contribution
6. Post-processualist archaeology
6.1. Post-processualism and the "anarchic approach"
6.2. Structuralism
6.3. Neo-marxist archaeology
6.4. Cognitive and symbolic archaeology
6.5. New approaches
7. Field methods for archaeological excavations
Teaching Methods
Theoretical exposition. Reading, analysis, discussion and synthesis. Discussion of the most importants texts in the discipline.
A final written frequency (50%) and a written work with presentation in (40% ), as well as attendance and participation (10%)
A final written frequency (50%) and a written work with presentation in (40% ), as well as attendance and participation (10%)
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
