Protohistoric Europe

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

It will depend on how many students register for the class. Students will be encouraged to discuss texts in class that they have read at home, either individually or in groups, to complement the visual presentations given during class. On the other hand, students are encouraged to do research on their own using bibliographic and internet resources.

Learning Outcomes

This class focuses on the processes of creation and transformation of European societies during the diachronic period (II-I millenia B.C), from the emergence of the first international elites to the integration of Europe into the Roman world. Students will gain a general knowledge of European proto-historical communities by studying materialities that resulted from principles based practices and behaviors that were distinct and even contrary to historical societies. Students will analyze the primary evidence of the organization and functioning of these communities in economic, socio-political, funereal, cultural, artistic etc. and how they were accepted or rejected by the Roman world Learn skills to analyze and summarize using critical reasoning and knowledge of other cultures and customs in order to understand the social dynamics of the time.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

I. Time and space in Proto-historical Europe
1. Creation of the European era: naming, measuring, dividing, gathering
2. The order of things
3. The great geographic landmarks
II. The rythms of life and death
1. Continuity and change during the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.
2. Chiefdoms and international elites
3. The Late Bronze Age, the pwer of metal and the process of european "proto-globalization"
4. The Hallstatt and Mediterranean principalities
5. The Celtic movement and the formation of a new social order
6. Beliefs, rituals and artistic expressions of La Tène
7. Urban formation processes and the oppida phenomenon
8. Celts and Celtic inheritance: from archaeology to modern identities

Head Lecturer(s)

André Tomás Pinto da Silva e Conceição Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Oral defense of the synthesis work: 10.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

Bibliography

AAVV (1999), L’Europe au Temps d’Ulysse. Paris, Seuil. [há trad. inglesa]

BRADLEY, R. (2017), A Geography of Offerings. Deposits of Valuables in the Landscapes of Ancient Europe. Oxford & Philadelphia, Oxbow.

CUNLIFFE, B. (1997), The Ancient Celts, Oxford/New York.

FOKKENS, H. & HARDING, A., eds. (2013), The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age, Oxford University Press.

GUILAINE, J. & GARCIA, D., dir. (2018), La Protohistoire de la France, col. Histoire et Archéologie, Paris.

KERN, A. et al. (eds.) (2009), Kingdom of Salt. 7000 years of Hallstatt, Vienna, Natural History Museum.

KRISTIANSEN, K. (1998), Europe before History, Cambridge University Press [há trad. espanhola].

LEHOËRF, A. (2016), Préhistoires d'Europe. De Néandertal à Vercingétorix 40 000-52 avant notre ère, Éd. Belin, Paris.

MOORE, T. & ARMADA, X.-L. (eds.) (2011), Atlantic Europe in the First Millenium BC. Crossing the divide, Oxford Univ. Press.

WELLS, P. (2012), How Ancient European saw the World, Princeton Univ. Press.