ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
-To achieve a general Knowledge about the Economical and Social Evolution of the Human Groups in the Recent Prehistory and the Protohistory from a Holistic Perspective.
-To take Conscious on the Part of the Students of the Relation and Interaction between Past and Present in the Building up of the Societies.
1. The Neolithic and the Origin of the Production Economies. The Neolithization of Near East and other extra-European areas.
2. The Neolithization of the Continental Europe and the Mediterranean.
3. The Atlantic Neolithic and the Megalithic complex.
4. The Chalcholithic: general characterization, metallurgy and appearance of the complex societies.
5. The first Metallurgical Societies of Europe and the Bell Beaker Culture.
6. The Bronze Age in the Continental Europe and the Mediterranean.
7. The Bronze Age in the Atlantic Europe.
8. Late Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age.
9. Early Iron Age: The Hallstatt Culture.
10.The Second Iron Age: La Tène Culture and the Celts.
Basic bibliography:
EIROA, J.J., 2010: Prehistoria del Mundo. Sello Editorial. Barcelona.
MENENDEZ, M.; JIMENO, A.; FERNANDEZ, V.M., 2011: Diccionario de Prehistoria. Alianza Editorial, 2ª ed. Madrid.
MUÑOZ IBÁÑEZ, F. J. (coord.) 2021: Prehistoria II. Las sociedades metalúrgicas (3ª ed.). UNED. Madrid.
Compulsory reading: Rodríguez Casal, A. A. (1990). O Megalitismo. A primeira arquitectura monumental de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico. https://iacobus.usc.gal/permalink/34CISUG_USC/o7pcup/alma99101341587980…
Complementary bibliography:
AURENCHE, O. y KOZLOWSKY, S. K., 2003: El origen del Neolítico en el Próximo Oriente. El paraíso perdido. Ed. Ariel. Barcelona.
BELEN, M.; CHAPA, T. 1997: La Edad del Hierro. Ed. Síntesis, Madrid.
BERNABEU, J; AURA, J.; BADAL, B. 1995: Al Oeste del Edén: las primeras sociedades agrícolas en la Europa Mediterránea. Síntesis. Madrid.
BLASCO, Mª C., 1993: El Bronce Final. Ed. Sintesis, Madrid.
COLLIS, J., 1989: La Edad del Hierro en Europa. Ed. Labor, Barcelona.
CUNLIFFE, B. (2008). Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
DELIBES, G.; FERNANDEZ MIRANDA, M.: 1993. Los orígenes de la civilización. El Calcolítico en el Viejo Mundo. Síntesis. Madrid.
GARCÍA DÍEZ, M., ZAPATA, L. (eds.) (2013): Métodos y técnicas de análisis y estudio en Arqueología prehistórica. Universidad del País Vasco. Bilbao.
KRISTIANSEN, K., 2001: Europa antes de la historia: los fundamentos prehistóricos de la Europa de la Edad del Bronce y la Primera Edad del Hierro. Ed. Península, Barcelona.
LULL, V.; GONZALEZ MARCEN, P.; RISCH, R., 1992: Arqueología de Europa, 2250-1200 A.C. Una introducción a la “edad del bronce”. Síntesis, Madrid.
MAZURIE, K., 2007: El origen del neolítico en Europa. Ariel Prehistoria. Barcelona.
RENFREW, C., BAHN, P. (2004): Arqueología. Teorías, métodos y práctica. AKAL. Madrid.
RODRIGUEZ CASAL, A. A. (ed.) 1997: O Neolítico atlántico e as orixes do Megalitismo. Ed. USC. Santiago de Compostela
RUIZ-GALVEZ, M. 1998: La Europa Atlántica en la Edad del Bronce. Un viaje a las raíces de la Europa occidental. Ed. Crítica. Barcelona.
SCARRE, C. (ed) (2005): The Human Past. World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies. Thames and Hudson. London.
- To know the main Aspects and the Dynamics of the Recent Prehistory and the Protohistory.
- Critic Capacity of Analysis and Research in this Field.
- Initiation to the fieldwork and to basic research in this area.
- Skills to find out archaeological Information using specialized bibliography and through the Internet.
Since this is a subject being phased out, there will be no in-person teaching. Contact between the teaching staff and students will take place only through tutorials and email.
Written test covering ten points (100% of the subject).
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions outlined in the "Regulations on the assessment of students' academic performance and the review of grades" will apply.
Total: 150h
Personal work in coordination with the teaching staff.
A functional command of one of the main foreign languages is recommended.
Particular importance will be given to the Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, within the context of European Prehistory.
Miguel Carrero Pazos
- Department
- History
- Area
- Prehistory
- Phone
- 881812565
- miguel.carrero [at] usc.es
- Category
- PROFESOR/A PERMANENTE LABORAL