Cultural changes during the Iron Age

elective

ARCHAEOLOGY, specialization Prehistoric and Medieval Archaeology

2nd cycle

Year 2

Lecture leads to demonstrate through the prism of archaeological transformations that led to the emergence of a major cultural backgrounds present in Central Europe in the pre-Roman Iron Age. The main emphasis was here on the following archaeological culturs: La Tene-, Jastorf- and Zarubiency-Culture. Through the prism of their transformations will be presented the image of society functioning at this time in Central Europe and the type of change to which it is then the subject in all spheres of civilization. Depending on the needs shown in this order will also link them with a zone of ancient civilizations of the world as well as contacts with well-known student of the basic cycle cultural units from the lands of modern Poland, namely the Przeworsk- and Oksywska-Culture.

Lecture content

Presentation of the changes taking place among the Central European Barbaricum community during the pre-Roman Iron Age:

- Presentation of the cultures of Central Europe

- Birth and development of the local pre-Roman Iron Age civilization

- Styles that characterize the material determinants of their chronological development

- The impact of civilization

- Transformation leading to the emergence of a community typical of the Roman period.

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B. Cunliffe, Starożytni Celtowie, Warszawa 2003.

T. Dąbrowska, Wczesne fazy kultury przeworskiej. Chronologia-zasięg-powiązania, Warszawa1988.

M. Kukenburg, Die Kelten, Stuttgart 2010.

J. Martens, The Pre-Roman Iron Age in North Jutland. In: J. Martens (Hrsg.) Chronological Problems of the Pre-Roman Iron Age in Northern Europe. Symposium at the Institute of Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology University of Copenhagen, December 8 1992. Arkæologiske Skrifter 7, Copenhagen 1997, s. 107-136.

A.M. Oбломский, Р.В. Терпиловский, О.В. Петраускас, Распад зарубинецкой културы и его социально-экономические и идеологические причины, Киев 1990.

H. Seyer, Siedlung und archäologische Kultur der Germanen im Havel-Spree-Gebiet in den Jahrhunderten vor Beginn u.Z., Berlin1982.

G. Schwantes, Die Jastorf-Zivilisation, [w:] „Festschrift für Paul Reinecke”, Mainz 1950, s. 119-130.

Student:

1) obtains advanced knowledge about the social, economic, cultural and material occurring among prehistoric communities in Central European Barbaricum during the pre-Roman Iron Age;

2) understands how there have interplanetary contacts between peoples living outside the area of ancient civilization;

3) has the ability to identify archaeological materials and styles typical for the most important contemporary cultural units of Central Europe.

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