LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- NICOLA MANCASSOLA
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ANT/08
Training objectives
- The course has the following aims:
1) enable the student to understand and contextualize the approaches to the study of landscape archeology;
2) know methods and instruments, using in landscape archeology approaches;
3) reflect about the strategies can be adopted in different territories for the study of archaeological landscapes.
In this way the student will be able to acquire an overall picture of the processes and dynamics that affect the study of the landscape in archeology. Prerequisites
- Historical and archaeological knowledge of basic level
Course programme
- The course deals the study of landscape archeology.
It is divided into several sub-themes that will help to develop general aspects (which will cover both the theoretical approaches to the study of landscape archeology), as case studies and applications, providing a picture of the scientific debate on the subject.
1) Landscape archaeology: theory and methods (12 h)
2) Centrality and marginality in landscapes: reflections and case studies on lowland landscapes and mountain landscapes (12 h)
3) Archeology of landscapes and computer science (6 h) Didactic methods
- Lectures and seminars.
The course may be provide educational tours and some activities in the laboratory, aim to learn use of mapping tools, GIS and aerial images processing and interpretation. Learning assessment procedures
- The exam will be an oral interview where the themes debated in the lessons and those present in the reference bibliography will be discussed.
Reference texts
- F. CAMBI, Manuale di archeologia dei paesaggi. Metodologie, fonti, contesti, Carocci, Roma 2011.
B. David, J. Thomas (edited by), Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, Walnut Creek 2008:
PART V. Characterizing Landscapes, pp. 345-609.
