Interdisciplinary Exercise 1

Annotation

The purpose of the course is to present the students the basic knowledge of the subjects tightly connected with the art history. These subjects are also of a great significance for the practice, for example in the area of the cultural heritage. They may be aslo highly effective due to application of the brand new research analytic or documentation methods and so improve significantly the level of the knowledge of various researched aspects. The course thus introduces the basics of archaeology, documentation of the moveable and immovable monuments, application of the various chemcal – physical or experimental methods in the research of significant aspects of the subject of the study, as well as the practice, when the students apply individual knowledge in the terrain, during the activities of an archaeological nature or during the excercises focusing on the preservation of the cultural monuments.

The part dedicated to archaeology represents to students basic conception of the archaeological activities realised in the territory of the Czech republic and explains the principles of the rescue archaeology and the systematic archaeology as well as the examples of the destructive and non-destructive archaeology.

Students will also know the basic framework of the archaeological legislation, conditions and permissions regulating the performing of the archaeological activities. The course clarifies also the principles of the territorial division of the archaeological heritage preservation in the Czech republic.

The part focused to the application of analytic chemical/physical or experimental methods used in the art history

(so called technical art of history) explains the meaning and benefit of these methods, as well as the basics of for example neutron activation analysis, XRF analysis, traseology, digital microscopy, etc. The subjects also explains the suitability of their application in particular cases, as well as the potential colision of their application with some principles of the preservation of the cultural heritage.

The part aimed to the documentation presents all traditional and the brand new documentation methods, with special accent on the generating of 3D models of individual artefacts as well as of complex contexts and possibility of their study in the laboratory conditions.

The part dedicated to the practice exercise will mediate the students for example the basic archaeological prospection methods or methods of traditional and digital documentation of the artefacts and context. They will be introduced the basics of traseology and they will be also testing the experimental work with replicas of stonemason´s tools.