Metal Ages of Southeast Europe

Pre-requisites: Command of the English language and a working knowledge of German.

Course objectives: Familiarization with the new approach in interpreting the formation, development and communication between certain late prehistoric cultures in southeastern Europe under the influence of eastern Mediterranean Hellenic culture.

Course description: Review of leading metal age cultures (copper, bronze and iron) in southeastern Europe. Special attention will be given to material and spiritual culture study of paleobalkan people from the pre roman times in the western, central and eastern Balkan region.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination and oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• Petrović, J., Jovanović, B., Gomolava. Naselje kasnog eneolita, Novi Sad – Beograd, 2002
• Thraker und Kelten beidseits der Karpaten (2000/2001), Eberdingen (ed. T. Bader)
• Treasures of the Bronze Age in Romania (1995), Muzeul National de istorie a Romanie, Bucuresti (eds. C.Stoica, M.Rotea, N. Boroffka)
• KRISTIANSEN k., Europe before history, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• KRISTIANSEN K., LARSSON T., The Rise of Bronze Age Society, Cambridge University Press,2007.
• COLLIS J., The European Iron Age, London 1984.
• Harding, A.F.European Societies in the Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, 2000
• Prehistoric Bulgaria, Monographes in World Archaeology No.22, Madison Wiskonsin 1995.(Eds. D. W.Baily, J.Panayotov)
• On the Stratigraphy of Cernavoda III-Boleraz Finds from the Djerdap Area. In: Cernavoda III-Boleraz Symposium. Ein Vorgeschichtliches Phänomen zwischen Oberrhein und der Unteren Donau., Bucuresti 2001, p. 330-341
• MiloŠ Jevtić, Early Bronze Age Hillfort in the Novi Pazar Area, Macedonia and the Neighbouring Regions from 3rd to 1st Milenium B.C. Papers at the International Symposium in Struga 1997, 73-84.