Teacher
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GUIDI ALESSANDRO
(syllabus)
The course is for students that got the laurea triennale, trying to give them tools and methods to afford prehistory research projects in the framework of European prehistory and protohistory, and affords the argument of Movements of people in Italy during the late Copper Age and 'Bronze Age (2500-1000 ca. BC). In the context of the chronological and cultural framework of the peninsula and the islands, the problem of the more or less substantial movements of people will be addressed with the help of archeology and in some cases of historical-literary sources, in recent years of DNA or the isotopes lead and strontium isotopes analysis carried out on human and animal remains by examining some of the best known case-studies, from the arrival between the late Copper Age and the ancient Bronze Age of the bearers of the Bell-Beaker culture and later on of the populations from the other shore of the Adriatic (Wieselburg-Gata and Cetina cultures) to the displacements of the populations who lived in the pile-dwelling settlements between the ancient and middle Bronze Age, up to the collapse and subsequent diaspora of the inhabitants of the Terremare and the well-known "invasion” of the Ausoni in the Aeolian Islands in the late Bronze Age The course includes both introductory lectures and seminars for attending students in which various case studies will be examined, also with the help of experts who will be invited to present the results of their research, organizing if possible also visits to museums and / or archaeological areas.
(reference books)
Texts for the exam
M.David-Elbiali, Les Origines de l’âge du bronze, in Archéologia 339, 1997, pp. 54-59
P.Bellintani, Canár di San Pietro Polesine. Breve sintesi sugli studi archeologici, in Canár di San Pietro Polesine. Ricerche archeo-ambientali sul sito palafitticolo, Quaderni di Padusa 2, 1998, pp. 15-21.
A.Cardarelli, The Collapse of the Terramare Culture and growth of new economic and social System during the late Bronze Age in Italy, in Scienze dell’Antichità 15, pp. 448-520.
C. Broodbank, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla preistoria alla nascita del mondo classico, Einaudi, Torino 2015 (2013), pp. 345-444
M.Gori, G.Recchia, H.Thomas, The Cetina phenomenon across the Adriatic during the 2nd half of the 3rd millennium BC: new data and research Perspectives, in Atti 38 Convegno Nazionale Preistoria-Protostoria-Storia della Daunia, San Severo 2018, pp. 197-216
M. Bettelli, A.Cardarelli, I.Damiani, Le ultime terramare e la Penisola: circolazione di modelli o diaspora?, in Preistoria e Protostoria dell’Emilia Romagna, II, Studi di Preistoria e Protostoria 3, Firenze 2018, pp. 187-198
C. Cavazzuti, Oltre ciò che appare, oltre le facies archeologiche. Cosa possono fare aDNA e isotopi per la protostoria italiana?, in Danckers J., Cavazzuti C., Cattani M., Facies e Culture dell'età del Bronzo Italiana?, Bruxelles-Roma: Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome 2019, pp. 295-313
M.C.Martinelli, Isole vicine. L’arcipelago delle Isole Eolie e le comunità umane nella preistoria mediterranea, Edizioni di storia e studi sociali, Rende (CS) 2020, pp. 144-156, figg. 7 e 61-63.
Not attending students
C. Broodbank, Il Mediterraneo. Dalla preistoria alla nascita del mondo classico, Einaudi, Torino 2015 (2013), over all pp. 148-505.
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