Celts and Scordiscs

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To acquire knowledge regarding material and spiritual culture of the Celts, who are regarded as one of the most important people of Europe that lived in the pre-roman time.

Course description: An introduction to the cultural history of Celts and archaeological data regarding their genesis, their strengthening in the Upper Danube and Lower Rein regions, and their expansion throughout Europe during the second half of the first millennium B.C. Special Emphasis will be placed on the so called Eastern Celts, mainly the Scordiscs who established Singidunum, and Tauriscs who inhabited the central regions of Slovenia (Dolenjska) and northern parts of Croatia (western Posavina). Special attention during the lectures will be given to authentic Celtic art using which we can follow the direction of the campaigns of these “unifiers” of the old barbaric Europe during the pre-roman period. Toward the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to study original Celtic material deposited in the Faculty of Philosophy Archaeological Collection, especially the finds from a Celtic settlement, called Oppidum, near Vršac.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Celts and Scordiscs

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To acquire knowledge regarding material and spiritual culture of the Celts, who are regarded as one of the most important people of Europe that lived in the pre-roman time.

Course description: An introduction to the cultural history of Celts and archaeological data regarding their genesis, their strengthening in the Upper Danube and Lower Rein regions, and their expansion throughout Europe during the second half of the first millennium B.C. Special Emphasis will be placed on the so called Eastern Celts, mainly the Scordiscs who established Singidunum, and Tauriscs who inhabited the central regions of Slovenia (Dolenjska) and northern parts of Croatia (western Posavina). Special attention during the lectures will be given to authentic Celtic art using which we can follow the direction of the campaigns of these “unifiers” of the old barbaric Europe during the pre-roman period. Toward the end of the course, students will have an opportunity to study original Celtic material deposited in the Faculty of Philosophy Archaeological Collection, especially the finds from a Celtic settlement, called Oppidum, near Vršac.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• Art fo Scordisci and Židovar Treasure, Beograd-Vršac 2007
• Židovarsko blago. Ostava srebrnog nakita iz naselja Skordisa. – The Židovar Treasure. Silver Jewelery Hoard from the Settlement of Scordisci (ed. M. Jevtić), Vršac –
• KELTOI: Kelti i njihovi savremenici na tlu Jugoslavije (ur. D. Božič), Ljubljana 1984
• - TODOROVIĆ Jovan, Skordisci. Istorija i kultura, Novi Sad i Beograd 1974.
• - JOVANOVIĆ B., BOŽIČ D., Keltska kultura u Jugoslaviji, Praistorija jugoslovenskih zemalja Tom V, Sarajevo 1987, 805-899
• - TODOROVIĆ Jovan, Kelti u jugoistočnoj Evropi, Diss. 7, Muzej Grada Beograda, Beograd 1968;
• Silber der Illyrer und Keltne im Zentralbakan, Keltenmuzeum Hochdorf/Enz, Eberdingen 2004 (Katalog)
• Miklos Szabo, Les Celtes de L`Est: Le scond age du fer dans la cuvette des Karpates, Paris 1992.
• Kruta V., Les Celtes: Histoire et dictionaire, Paris, 2000