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

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

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

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

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

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.