PROTOHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE VENETIAN TERRITORY

It is a characterizing teaching for the Master’s Degree Ancient Civilisations: Literature, History and Archaeology, for the archaeological curriculum; it aims to furnish to students methodological tools to investigate cultural and socio-economic development in the Venetian area before of Roman domination.
It will be analyzed relationships with etrusco-italic, Mediterranean and European cultures; we pay attention to the chronological items and to material culture.
Our main focus is to improove ability to make chronological references for archaeological venetic finds.

1. Knowledge and understanding
- To know basic archaeological and technical terminology
- To Know development of settlements and cities in Venetic area
- To Know main theoretical models to analize urban societies
- To know main features of local material culture
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- To be able to employ archaeological and technical terminology
- To be able to apply theoretical models for the development of Venetic culture and landscape
- To be able to analyze to analyze settlements and cities
- To be able to analyze examples of material culture and artistic finds
3. Judgment skills
- To be able to judge and argue hypothesis about venetic contexts
4. Communication skills
- To be able to tell new finds or results of the research with a plain and technical terminology
- To be able to compare themselves with colleagues and tutor, even on.line
5. Learning ability
- To be able to take notes and to share them with colleagues, even on line
- To be able to consult bibliographic references even with a critical point of view

Etruscology and Italic Archaeology, at least one course (6 CFU). Students have to know quite well Northern Italy phisical geography.

The teaching aims to furnish basical knowledge of the Venetic area in the Iron age, features of the settlements and cities, problems of chrono-typology in connections with material culture; relative and absolute chronology.
A case study will be focused on settlements and development from hit to houses and different models of houses, in connection with Italic and Etruscan cultures.

Testi obbligatori:
- L. Capuis, I Veneti. Civiltà e cultura di un popolo dell’Italia preromana, Milano 1993.
- L. Capuis, G. Gambacurta, Il Veneto tra il IX e il VI secolo a.C.: dal territorio alla città, in G. Leonardi, V. Tinè (a cura di), Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, Atti della XLVIII Riunione Scientifica dell’IIPP, Padova 2013, Crocetta del Montello 2015, pp. 449-459.
- M. Migliavacca, Lo spazio domestico nell’Età del Ferro. Tecnologia edilizia e aree di attività tra VII e I sec. a.C. in una porzione dell’arco alpino orientale, Preistoria Alpina, 29 (1993), Trento 1996.
- Dalla capanna al palazzo. Edilizia abitativa nell’Italia preromana, Annali per la Fondazione del Museo “Claudio Faina” XXIII, 2016 (saggi di C. Piazzi, E. Govi, G. Camporeale).
Letture integrative:
- R. Peroni et Alii 1975, Studi sulla cronologia delle civiltà di Este e Golasecca, Firenze
- S. Stopponi, Case e Palazzi d’ Etruria, Milano 1985.
- Mura di legno, mura di terra, mura di pietra: fortificazioni nel Mediterraneo antico, Atti del Convegno Internazionale Roma 2012, Acienze dell’Antichità 19.2-3, 2013.
- Dalla capanna al palazzo. Edilizia abitativa nell’Italia preromana, Annali per la Fondazione del Museo “Claudio Faina” XXIII, 2016 (saggi di V. D’Ercole e O. Menozzi, G. Tagliamonte).
- J.R. Brandt – L. Karlsson edd, From huts to houses. Transformation of ancient Societies, Proceedings of an International Seminar organized by the Norwegian and the Swedish Institutes in Rome, September 1997, Stockholm 2001.
Per i non frequentanti anche alcuni saggi da concordare con il docente da:
-- Dalla capanna al palazzo. Edilizia abitativa nell’Italia preromana, Annali per la Fondazione del Museo “Claudio Faina” XXIII, 2016 (saggi di C. Piazzi, E. Govi, G. Camporeale, V. D’Ercole e O. Menozzi, G. Tagliamonte).
- E. Govi, G. Sassatelli (a cura di), Marzabotto. La casa 1 della Regio IV – insula 2, 1 – Lo scavo, Bologna 2010. (capitoli: E. Govi, cap. IV, pp. 179-203; cap. V: pp. 205-222; E. Govi, G. Sassatelli, cap. IX, pp. 291-310).

The test is oral; the student have to show a good knowledge of the main subjects and that they are able to explain the topics in a formally correct language, making use also of proper archaeological terminology. The students are expected to recognise the main monuments and archaeological sites treated or traceable in images drawn from the bibliography and their chronological and cultural framework.

Face to face lessons
Lectures and exercises
On.line papers for specific topics.

Italian

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development