Sylabus
Week 1 (90 minutes)
LECTURE: Introduction to the course.
Roman archaeology in Italy - current and old research topics
Week 2 (90 minutes)
LECTURE: The Roman cities. Rusellae.
Week 3 (90 minutes)
LECTURE: The cities. Comparing West and East, the cases of Cosa and Butrint.
Week 4 (45 minutes lecture, 45 minutes seminar)
LECTURE: “Paesaggi d’Etruria” - Landscape archaeology and settlement networks
SEMINAR: Comparing different landscapes from Augustus to Septimius Severus
Week 5 (90 minutes)
LECTURE: Roman economy. The Villas.
Week 6 (45 minutes lecture, 45 minutes seminar)
LECTURE: Roman economy. Shops, workshops and trades.
SEMINAR: Roman pottery and its analysis
Week 7 (45 minutes each seminar)
SEMINAR: Veronica Aniceti - Ph.D. student (University of Sheffield, UK). Zooarchaeology: a key discipline for understanding the rural and urban economy in Roman times.
SEMINAR: Quantifying the Roman Economy
Week 8 (90 minutes)
LECTURE: New directions in Roman Archaeology. The Alberese Archaeological Project
Week 9 (45 minutes lecture, 45 minutes seminar)
LECTURE: New directions in Roman Archaeology. The Roman Peasants Crew Project
SEMINAR: Comparing different agers in South Tuscany - methodology and results
WEEK 10 (45 minutes lecture, 45 minutes seminar)
LECTURE: Going into the Dark Ages. The Late Antique urban and rural landscape of Central Italy
SEMINAR: Giulia Vollono - Ph.D. student (University of Sheffield, UK). Funerary landscapes in Central Italy.
Anotace
The aim of this course is to focus on the archaeology of the Roman to the Late Antique period in Central Italy, mainly Etruria.
Through lectures and seminars, the students will be taught about rural sites, their relationships with the main urban centres and overall Roman economic systems and society. A major emphasis will be paid to actual archaeological investigations in South Tuscany.
In order to deliver a wider picture of Roman and Late Antique Archaeology in Central Italy in comparison with the
Mediterranean context, seminars will be provided to students. These will focus on specific topics and references will be given to the students. If articles/papers/volumes are not available in the libraries in Prague, pdf version will be given to students.