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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Lectures: 1) 12) Gradual introduction to particular burial practices. Seminaries: 1) 12) Analysis and discussion of individual information sources (academic literature) the students prepare background research of information sources in advance, and this is analysed with the lecturer in the seminary.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Homework for Teaching
- 64 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 36 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The bipolarity of development in Moravia and in the Middle Danube Region is reflected also in the differences in burial rite. Group inhumations of Únětice culture with all the buried lying on their right side and with quite different orientation, burials in wooden coffins, stone grave lay-out, specification of grave gifts not only sexual, but also social and, most importantly, temporal (decrease in number gradually in younger periods) are different from the W-E oriented, usually simple pits and strict sexual dimorphism of the Epi-Corded complex, remaining at some places (east Moravia, south-west Slovakia) until the beginning of Middle Bronze Age. That one is characteristic by the rise of regular burials under tumuli (rarely known in the Únětice culture) and by the change in burial rite from inhumation to cremation with many specific traits. The structures and forms of burial pits, the position of burial grounds and their relation to settlement areas, their size etc. are discussed in detail. The lying and the position of the buried, according to their age and sex, including the composition and characteristics of the grave inventory, is also observed. Abnormal cases, including mass graves and their explanation, are not neglected. Burial areas are the best evidence of gradually growing social differentiation, culminating by noble graves of the Helmsdorf-Leubingen type, for instance in central Germany or in Greater Poland/Wielkopolska (Łęki Małe).
Good orientation in the area of study.
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Prerequisites
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Basic orientation in archaeological cultures acquired in subjects of the bachelor study, particularly in the "Doba bronzová a halštat" (Bronze Age and Hallstatt Era) subject, eventually in the "Výběrové přednášky z archeologie 5 a 7" (Selected lectures on archaeology 5 and 7) subject.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
participation on the lessons (36 hodin=1.5 credit); individual studying of information sources and seminary preparation (50 hours=2 credits); colloquium preparation (14 hours=0.5 credit)
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Recommended literature
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Fokkens, H. - Harding. A (eds.). (2013). The Oxford Hanbdbook of the European Bronze Age. Oxford.
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Jiráň, L. ed. (2008). Archeologie pravěkých Čech /5. Doba bronzová. Praha.
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