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060085 VU Palimpsest and Pompeii-Premise: (2016W)

Theories, Methods and practical exercises in analysing Iron Age settlement excavations

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 6 - Ägyptologie, Judaistik, Urgeschichte und Historische Archäologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Language: German

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Die LV vom 9.12.2016 wird auf 25.11.2016 12-14 Uhr vorverlegt!

  • Friday 07.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 14.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 21.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 28.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 04.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 11.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 18.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 25.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 02.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 09.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 16.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 13.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 20.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG
  • Friday 27.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 13 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 4.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

In the first part, current theories and methods of analysis in settlement archaeology will be presented (e.g. formation processes, taphonomy, dirt paradigm, structured depositions, Pompeii-premise, palimpsest, form and function of buildings, etc.). In the second part some analyses will be discussed using original excavation material and already published settlements. In the third part, students will have to do an analysis on their own using excavation data provided.

Assessment and permitted materials

Active participation and discussion; short final paper (analysis of a case study with written interpretation); written final exam.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Examination topics

Reading list

Hill 1995
J. D. Hill, Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex. A study on the formation of a specific archaeological record. BAR British Series 242 (Oxford 1995).
Pope 2007
R. Pope, Ritual and the roundhouse: a critique of recent ideas on the use of domestic space in later British prehistory. In: C. Haselgrove/R. Pope (Hrsg.), The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent (Oxford 2007) 204-228.
Schiffer 1987
M. B. Schiffer, Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record [Reprint 1996] (Salt Lake City 1987).
Schmidt 2005
D. Schmidt, Die Lesbarkeit des Abfalls: Zur Entdeckung materieller Unkultur als Objekt archäologischen Wissens. In: T. L. Kienlin (Hrsg.), Die Dinge als Zeichen: Kulturelles Wissen und materielle Kultur. Internationale Fachtagung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 3.-5. April 2003. Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 127 (Bonn 2005) 239-252.
Sommer 2012
U. Sommer, Wer hat Dornröschen aufgeweckt? Taphonomie und Mainstream-Archäologie. In: T. Link/D. Schimmelpfennig (Hrsg.), Taphonomische Forschungen (nicht nur) zum Neolithikum. Fokus Jungsteinzeit. Berichte der AG Neolithikum 3 (Kerpen-Loogh 2012) 1534.
Trebsche 2009
P. Trebsche, Does form follow function? Towards a methodical interpretation of archaeological building features. World Arch. 41, 3, 2009, 504-518.

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