2017/18
28111 - Prehistory: Farmers, Shepherds and Metalworkers
Compulsory
5.3. Syllabus
1. Concept and divisions of the Prehistory recent.
2. Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene hunters and gatherers who were pre-adapted for agriculture.
3. Epipaleolíthic and Mesolíthic: European cultures.
4. Neolíthic and neolithization process: concept, terminology and divisions.
5. New Ston Age: technology society and economy.
6. The Neolithic revolution in the Near East: occurs first in the fertile crescent.
7. The Neolithic expansion in the Europe: teorethical models, cultural groups and cronology.
8. The Calcolíthic: the initial phase of the Age of the Metals and the social hierarchy.
9. The Calcolíthic: European cultures and the Bell-Beaker culture.
10. The Calcolithic: the Iberian peninsula cultures, Los Millares and Vila Nova de Sao Pedro.
5.4. Course planning and calendar
See the academic calendar of the University of Zaragoza (http://academico.unizar.es/calendario-academico/calendario) and the website of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts (Schedule of classes: https://fyl.unizar.es/horario-de-clases#overlay-context=horario-de-clases; Examination schedule: https://fyl.unizar.es/calendario-de-examenes#overlay-context=)
More information will be provided on the first day of class.