Archeology of the Mediterranean

Pre-requisites: To have passed the examination for the course Introduction to Studying archaeology.

Course objectives: Acquirement of a wide frame of reference in which different Balkan cultures had formed; summarizing courses bringing specific subjects into a concise overview.

Course description: Introduction to the archeological material and literature, chronology, problems, interpretation of the Mediterranean basin, which has been, during all the archeologically studied periods, a zone where interaction, influences and cultural mixing with the Balkan peninsula; the course is taught by lecturers and associates with wide ranging specializations in chronological (early prehistory, to late middle ages) and geographical ( Balkans, Europe, Near East) terms, as well as different theoretical and methodological approaches (culture-historical, processual, post-processual) to archaeological research.

Learning Outcomes: Lectures, seminars, independent research work

Literature/Reading:

• J.Bintliff, K.Sbonias (eds), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes, Reconstructing Past Population Trends in Mediterranean Europe (3000 BC –AD 1800), Oxford: Oxbow, 1999
• P. Leveau et al. (eds.), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes, Enviromental Reconstruction in Mediterranean Landscape archaeology, Oxford: Oxbow, 1999
• M. Pasquinucci, F. Trement (eds), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Landscapes Non-Destructive Techniques Applied to Landscape Archeology, Oxford: Oxbow, 1999
• J. Clarke (ed.), Achaeological Perspectives on the Transmission and Transformation of Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean Oxford: Oxbow, 2005
• V. Girardi Jurkić (ed.), Vinogradrstvo i maslinarstvo od prapovjesti do srednjeg vijeka, Histria Antiqua 15, Pula, 2007
• J. Cvijić, Balkansko poluostrvo, Beograd, 1922
• F. Brodel, Mediteran i mediteranski svet u doba Filipa II, Beograd: Geopoetika, 2001