Research in Territory Dynamics

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

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

Within the context of an interdisciplinary course, students are expected to acquire the following competences:
a) Knowledge and discussion of the evolution of the concept of territory and its use by the different subjects;
b) The ability to research territory in its spatio-temporal dimension and to question, in a long diachrony, the representation of the territories of Archaeology;
c) The ability to address the territorial issues outside a purely periodical logic, where historians and archaeologists commonly confine them.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Places, spaces and territories

1.1. Concepts and perspectives for research

1.2. Territorial markers

1.3. Perception of the territories

2. Construction, configuration and change of territories

2.1. The perspective of the geographer and the historian

2.2. The perspective of the archaeologist

2.3. Territories, representation and realities

3. Spatial and temporal analysis: case studies.

Head Lecturer(s)

Raquel Maria da Rosa Vilaça

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Ashmore, W. & Knapp, B. (ed.) — Archaeologies of Landscape, Cambridge.

Bradley, R. (2000) — An Archaeology of Natural Places, London / New York.

Brück, J. (ed.) (2001) — Bronze Age Landscapes. Tradition and Transformation, Oxford.

García Sanjuan, L. (2005) — Introducción al Reconocimiento y Análisis Arqueológico del Territorio, Barcelona.

González Villaescusa, R. (2002) – Las formas de los paisajes mediterráneos: (…), Jaén.

Hodder, I. & Orton, C. (1990) — Análisis espacial en Arqueología, Barcelona.

Ingold, T. (2000) — The Perception of the Environment, London & New York.

Tilley, C. (1994) — A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, London.

Trillo, C. (ed.) (2002) – Asentamientos Rurales y Territorio en el Mediterrâneo Medieval. Granada.

 Zadora-Rio, E. (dir)  (2008) — Des paroisses de Touraine aux communes d’Indre-et-Loire. La formation des territoires, Tour.