Resources Exploitation and Building Techniques

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-Practical classes of presentation and discussion of the course contents' subjects. Discussion of texts on techniques, metrics and construction materials.

Learning Outcomes

Archaeology implies the understanding of the human impact in territory, both in the exploitation and transformation of the natural resources, in the construction of the occupied / inhabited spaces and in the diversity of their internal organization.

Since excavation and the study of structures and archaeological monuments requires, for each chronological-cultural period, a wide range of knowledge and expertise in observation, description, identification and assessment skills, it is necessary to establish the models, the techniques and the building materials. Hence, within the framework of an interdisciplinary course, students are expected to acquire study competences around the "readings" of different technologies, constructive models and their materialities in a long diachrony.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction

1.1. Concepts and study methodologies

1.2. Scales of analysis and models of spatial and social organization

1.3. The Human Being and the transformations in the landscape

2. From raw materials to constructions

2.1. Resource exploitation techniques

2.2. Transformation and construction materials

2.3. Uses and construction techniques

2.4. Plans, dimensions and old metrologies

2.5. Types and functions

2.6. Case studies

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Other: 50.0%

Bibliography

AA.VV. (2005) — Architectures protohistoriques en Europe occidentale du Néolithique final à l’âge du Fer, Paris.

AA. VV. (2006) —Terra: Forma de Construir, Porto.

ALARCÃO, J. (2004) – Introdução ao Estudo da Tecnologia Romana, Coimbra.

AZKARATE, A. et al. (Eds.), (2005) – Aparejos Construtivos Medievales en el Mediterráneo Occidental. Estudio Arqueológico de las Técnicas Construtivas. Arqueología de la Arquitectura, nº 4, Vitoria.

BERROCAL-RANGEL, L. & MORET, P. (eds.) (2007) — Paisajes Fortificados de la Edad del Hierro, Madrid.

JONES, M. W. (2000) – Principles of Roman Architecture, Yale University Press – New Haven and London.

KENT, S. (ed.) (1990) — Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

MORET, P. (1996) — Les fortifications ibériques. De la fin de l'Age du Bronze à la conquête romaine,Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 56.VITRÚVIO – Tratado de Arquitectura, [Trad. Introd. e notas de M. Justino MACIEL, Lisboa, 2006].