Funerary Archeology

Code: HIS14679M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Archeology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

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

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.

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

Understanding of the existing diversity at the level of Funerary Archeology in Iberian Peninsula at the level of architectures, materials, implantations and chronologies.
The relations of man with the ecosystem, in the past, and the processes of choosing reference areas for the construction of funerary monuments.

1. The Funerary Contexts
2. Funerary Architectures
2.1. Positive architectures
2.2. Negative architectures
3. Symbolic behaviors
4. The materials
5. Deployments in space
6. Chronologies
7. The interpretive models
8. The Portuguese case: its diversity

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical classes with presentation of different types of funerary contexts and case studies. With readings, commented, of some texts / works of the specialty, by the students. In addition to the theoretical classes, students will also have field classes, with visits to monuments in the region, which will complement the information acquired.
The evaluation continuous, should be carried out through the development of two individual works (50% + 50%). The final assessment is made in the form of a final exam and can be made in any of the exam periods provided.