ETRUSCOLOGY AND ITALIC ARCHAEOLOGY I I

The teaching characterizes the CdS in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Landscape. It aims to provide students with the methodological tools for the interpretation of the archaeological contexts of pre-Roman Italy.
Objectives of the course are: to develop the ability to think about the dynamics of formation and development of the Etruscan civilization and of ancient Italy, also from different points of view. It aims to provide the methodology for the analysis of archaeological contexts also in comparison one with each other.

1. Knowledge and understanding
- To know basic archaeological and technical terminology
- To Know Italic chronology relative and absolute
- To know main theoretical models to analize settelments and necropolis
- To Know main theoretical models to analize material culture and social organization
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- To be able to employ archaeological and technical terminology
- To be able to apply chronological references for the Italic Iron age
- To be able to analyze some case studies for settlements and necropolis
- To be able to analyze examples of material culture and artistic finds
3. Judgment skills
- To be able to judge and argue hypothesis about etrusco-italic contexts
4. Communication skills
- To be able to tell new finds or results of the research with a plain and technical terminology
- to be able to compare themselves with colleagues and tutor, even in virtual way
5. Learning ability
- To be able to take notes and to share them with colleagues, even on line
- To be able to consult bibliographic references even with a critical point of view

Minimum requirement is a good knowledge of the Italian phisical and morphological geography. A basic knowledge of terminology and Iron age italic chronology, furthermore an overlook on the etrusco-italic civilization.

The topics related to the archaeology of death are developed.
The course will focus on the methodology of reading funerary contexts, rituals and a symbolic way of interpetation, through the knowledge of some examples of Etruscan civilization and contemporary Italic lones.
The course is also based on the comparative analysis of historical and archaeological sources, for the purpose of a coherent and wide-ranging interpretation.
Themes are proposed for attending and not attending. Non-attending students will have to take into consideration the specifically indicated bibliography and will be able to deepen individual topics of their specific interest on request.

Testi obbligatori:
D’Agostino B. 1985, Società dei vivi, comunità dei morti: un rapporto difficile, in “Dialoghi di Archeologia” III,I, pp. 47-58.
Bietti Sestieri A.M. 1992, La necropoli laziale di Osteria dell'Osa, Roma.
Esposito A. 2018, La necropoli di Pontesanto a Imola, Arimnestos. Ricerche di Protostoria mediterranea, I, pp. 187-206
Cuozzo M.A. 2003, Reinventando la tradizione. Immaginario sociale, ideologie, e rappresentazione nelle necropoli orientalizzanti di Pontecagnano, Paestum.
Angelini R., Bentini L., Rodriguez E., von Eles P. 2015, Ritualità funeraria tra Veneto e Verucchio (Rinini) nell'età del Ferro: un confronto possibile ?, in Leonardi G., Tiné V. ( a cura di), Preistoria e Protostoria del Veneto, atti della XLVIII riunione dell'IIPP (Padova 2013), Firenze 2015, pp. 533-540.
Ruta Serafini A. 2013, Alla riva che non ha sole, alla riva delle tenebre, in M. Gamba, G. Gambacurta, A. Ruta Serafini, F. Veronese, V. Tiné, Venetkens. Viaggio nella terra dei Veneti antichi, catalogo della mostra, Venezia, pp. 93-97.
Per approfondimenti e per i non frequentanti alcuni saggi a scelta da concordare con il docente:
D’Agostino B. 1977, Tombe principesche dell’Orientalizzante antico da Pontecagnano, in “Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei”, serie misc. II,2, pp. 1-110.
Peroni R (a cura di ) 1981, Necropoli e usi funerari nell’età del ferro, Bari.
Boiardi A., von Eles P. 2006, Codici funerari: dalle “regole” alla situazione “eccezionale” o viceversa ?, in Studi di Protostoria in onore di Renato Peroni, Firenze, pp. 602-608.
Bianchin Citton E., Gambacurta G., Ruta Serafini A. (a cura di) 1998, … ‘presso l’Adige ridente ‘… Recenti rinvenimenti archeologici da Este a Montagnana, catalogo della mostra, Padova.

The test is oral; the student have to show a good knowledge of the main subjects and that they are able to explain the topics in a formally correct language, making use also of proper archaeological terminology. The students are expected to recognise the main funerary contexts treated or traceable in the bibliography and their chronological and cultural framework.

Face to face lessons
Lectures and exercises
On.line papers for specific topics.

Italian

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