Cultural Transformations and Interactions in the Early Prehistory of Europe

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introduction to climatic, ecological and social factors affecting cultural changes in the early pre history.

Course description: The course is a comparative research of cultural processes and their manifestations in different regions and cultures during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and the Neolithic. Special attention is given to cultural changes in different forms of cultural and social interactions.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Cultural Transformations and Interactions in the Early Prehistory of Europe

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Introduction to climatic, ecological and social factors affecting cultural changes in the early pre history.

Course description: The course is a comparative research of cultural processes and their manifestations in different regions and cultures during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and the Neolithic. Special attention is given to cultural changes in different forms of cultural and social interactions.

Learning Outcomes: Essay, oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• M. Zvelebil (ed.) 1986, Hunters in Transition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• A. Sherratt 1997, Climatic cycles and behavioural revolutions: the emergence of modern humans and the beginning of the Neolithic, Antiquity 71, 271-287
• J. Chapman 1999, The Origins of Warfare in the Prehistory of Central and Eastern Europe, u J. Chapman, A. Harding (eds.) Ancient Warfare – Archaeological Perspectives, Sutton Publishing, str. 101-142
• S. Bökönyi (ed.) 1989, Neolithic of Southeastern Europe and its Near Eastern Connections, Institut of Archaeology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
• J. Ammerman, L.L. Cavalli-Sforza 1984, The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Population in Europe. Princeton University Press: Princetone
• C. Gamble 1993, Timewalkers: The Prehistory of Global Colonization, Penguin, Harmondsworth
• M. Pluciennik 1996, A perilous but necessary search: archaeology and European identities, u J. Atkinson, I. Banks & J. O’Sullivan (eds), Nationalism and Archaeology, Cruithne Press, Glasgow, 35-58
• T. D. Price, J. A. Brown (eds.) 1985, Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers – The Emergence of Cultural Complexity, Academic Press, Orlando
• I. Hodder 1991, The Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies, Basil Blackwell, Oxford