Environmental Archeology

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: To familiarize students with characteristics of the environment throughout human history, dynamic nature of the relief, processes of formation and destruction of archaeological sites, use of different kinds of geological and natural science methods in archaeology, the relation between people and plants and animals.

Course description: Introduction to environmental archaeology. Climatic changes in human history. The reasons for glaciations and the quaternary chronology. Paleographic changes. Vegetation. Fauna. Sedimentology and pedology in archaeology. Archaeopetrology. Archaeobotany. The processes of forming, modifying and destruction of archaeological sites.

Learning Outcomes: Midterm examination, essay and oral examination

Literature/Reading:

• Dimitrijević V., 2010. Arheologija životne sredine. Zbirka tekstova za pripremu ispita,1-67.
• Antonović D., K. Resimić-Šarić, i V. Cvetković. 2005. Kamene sirovine u vinčanskoj kulturi - analiza materijala iz Vinče i Belovoda. Starinar 55: 53-66.
• Bottema S., and B.S. Ottaway 1982. Botanical, malacological and archaeological zonation of settlement deposits at Gomolava. Journal of Archaeological Science 9: 221-246.
• Bunting M. J., R. Tipping, and J. Downes 2001. "Anthropogenic" Pollen Assemblages from a Bronze Age Cemetery at Linga Fiold, West Mainland, Orkney. Journal of Archaeological Science 28: 487-500.
• Chapman, J. 1990. The Neolithic in the Morava-Danube confluence area: a regional assessment of settlement pattern, in Tringham & D. Krstic (eds) Selevac. A Neolithic village in YugoslaviaMonumenta Archaeologica 15, Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 13–44.
• Clare, L., E. Rohling, B. Weninger, J. Hilpert 2008. Warfare in Late Neolithic\Early Chalcolithic Pisidia, southwestern Turkey. Climate induced social unrest in the late 7th millennium calBC. Documenta Praehistorica 35:65-92.
• Gardner A., 1999. The ecology of Neolithic impacts - re-evaluation of existing theory using case studies from Hungary & Slovenia. Documenta Praehistorica 26:163-183
• Huckleberry G., J. K. Stein, and P. Goldberg, 2003. Determining the provenience of Kennewick Man skeletal remains through sedimentological analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 651-665.
• Ilakovac B., 1996. Postanak i razvoj ninskih (Aenona) mostova. Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu 28-29: 73-96.
• Stevanović M., 1997. The age of clay: the social dynamics of house destruction. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 16: 334-395.
• Stuart A.J., P. A. Kosintsev, T. F. G. Higham and A. M. Lister 2004. Pleistocene to Holocene extinction dynamics in giant deer and woolly mammoth. Nature 431: 684-689.
• Tripković B., i M. Milić 2008. Poreklo i razmena opsidijana sa lokaliteta Vinča-Belo Brdo. Starinar 58: 71-86.
• Villa P., 1982. Conjoinable Pieces and Site Formation Processes. American Antiquity 47: 276-290.