FPF:UAA0121 Everyday Life of a Hunter-Gath - Course Information

UAA0121 Everyday Life of a Hunter-Gatherer Community in Paleaolithic

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Ondřej Mlejnek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ondřej Mlejnek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Ondřej Mlejnek, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of the course topics .

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Archaeology (programme FPF, N7109 Arch)

Course objectives

One-semester seminar focuses on the possible reconstruction of life in the Paleolithic era, focusing on housing, technology, symbolic thinking and other aspects of survival in the stone age technology. The present painting is based on a comparison of archaeological, anthropological and ethnographic data, complemented by knowledge of the problems of survival in the wild. The seminar is free and interpretation of anthropogeny with the reflection of the latest discoveries and theories.

Syllabus

• 1 / Dwellings in the Paleolithic, settlement archeology
  2 / Settlement strategy Palaeolithic hunters
  3 / Hunting Strategies
  4 / Foraging
  5 / Economy and Mobility of Paleolithic hunters and gatherers
  6 / Interpretation Paleolithic art
  7 / Techniques musical expression
  8 / spiritual ideas and paleopsychologie
  9 / production technology of stone industry
  10 / Technology processing organic material
  11 / Reconstruction of the environment in the Paleolithic
  12 / New findings on Antropogeneze

Literature

recommended literature
• Binford, L. R.:. Archaeology as anthropology, American Antiquity 28. info
• Svoboda, J.:. Čas lovců. Dějiny paleolitu, zvláště na Moravě. 1999. info
• Binford, L. R.:. Hearth and home: the spatial analysis of ethnographically documented rock shelter occupations as a template for distinguishing between human and hominid use of sheltered space. info
• Stringer Ch. - Gamble C.:. In Search of the Neanderthals. A Solving uzzle of human origins 1994. info
• Andrefsky, W. jr.:. Lithics. Macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology, Cambridge 1998. info
• Svoboda, J.:. Národní divadlo zblízka. Praha: Panorama, 1987. info
• Jelínek, J.:. Střecha nad hlavou. Počátky lidské architektury. Brno 1986. info
• Oliva, M.:. Variabilita paleolitických industrií a lidské chování. info

Assessment methods

Grade

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Essay submission.

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