Mediterranean Archaeology

Activity type

Archeologia dell'età pre-protostorica, classica e medievale

SSD

L-ANT/08

Year

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Semester

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CFU

6

Hours distribution

42 classroom hours

Lecturers

FEDERICA VACATELLO

Activity type

Archeologia dell'età pre-protostorica, classica e medievale

SSD

L-ANT/01

Year

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Semester

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CFU

6

Hours distribution

42 classroom hours

Lecturers

ALESSANDRO VANZETTI

The course aims to introduce the core relevance theme of the relationship between the mobility of human groups and the forms of society within the Ancient Mediterranean, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Both cases of individual or small group and of massive mobility (migrations) will be analysed, and contrasted with the background of medium and long-distance trade, as well as of even or asymmetrical relationships between societies. The connection between these two aspects, mobility and society, will be highlighted, through consolidated research topics and innovative and interdisciplinary issues, mainly derived from the anthropological and biological sciences. The course will enable students to master the current debate and acquire full awareness of the necessary skills for a modern interdisciplinary investigation.

Second part of the course - prof. Federica Vacatello
This 6-CFU course aims to analyse the migration flows that affected the Italian Peninsula, Northern Europe, and the wider ancient Mediterranean following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, through the material evidence left by the peoples who progressively settled in the territories of the former Empire, such as settlements, necropolises, artefacts, and structures. The course will therefore address phenomena and contexts that constitute the foundations of Medieval Archaeology.
The course is seminar-based and includes an initial phase of lectures, structured around general introductory classes, in-depth lectures on specific topics, and guided visits to museums and Roman and Latial archaeological contexts that are particularly significant in relation to the phenomena discussed. The final part of the course will be devoted to the in-class discussion of individual PowerPoint presentations on specific research topics assigned or agreed upon with each student at the beginning of the course.
The topic of the in-class presentation will be chosen by each student and may focus on a barbarian culture, an archaeological context, or the student’s city of origin, provided that the latter is interconnected with the migration phenomena of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and, in any case, that the topic is consistent with the issues addressed during the course.

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
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Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
No specific prerequisites are necessary. Knowledge of prehistory and ancient history of the Mediterranean will ease attending the course.
It is preferable to be acquainted with thematic library functioning (e.g. Library of Palaeoethnology, at ex-Vetrerie Sciarra - https://opac.uniroma1.it/SebinaOpacRMS/library/Scienze%20dell'antichit%C3%A0%20-%20Sede%20Paletnologia/RMS$5L04 OR http://www.antichita.uniroma1.it/paletnologia

Preferable to have the ability to mine internet library/journal databases
e.g. https://web.uniroma1.it/sbs/discoverysapienza ALSO IN REMOTE ACCESS https://login.ezproxy.uniroma1.it/login

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
This 6-CFU course aims to analyse the migration flows that affected the Italian Peninsula, Northern Europe, and the wider ancient Mediterranean following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, through the material evidence left by the peoples who progressively settled in the territories of the former Empire, such as settlements, necropolises, artefacts, and structures. The course will therefore address phenomena and contexts that constitute the foundations of Medieval Archaeology.
The course is seminar-based and includes an initial phase of lectures, structured around general introductory classes, in-depth lectures on specific topics, and guided visits to museums and Roman and Latial archaeological contexts that are particularly significant in relation to the phenomena discussed. The final part of the course will be devoted to the in-class discussion of individual PowerPoint presentations on specific research topics assigned or agreed upon with each student at the beginning of the course.
The topic of the in-class presentation will be chosen by each student and may focus on a barbarian culture, an archaeological context, or the student’s city of origin, provided that the latter is interconnected with the migration phenomena of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and, in any case, that the topic is consistent with the issues addressed during the course.



Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
The relationship between the mobility of human groups and the forms of society in the ancient Mediterranean represents the core argument of the course.
This module will focus on periods between Prehistory and the Roman Age, encompassing more than 50.000 years.
The precise Syllabus will be available at the start of the course, also taking into consideration students' expectations..

Main subjects:
- Introduction to problems, indicators, markers of mobility and connectivity.
- Palaeolithic mobility, theoretical concepts of human species and human transitions.
- Neolithic mobility and differences; integration in an already settled space, from Mediterranean coasts to inner Africa and Europe.
- Major migrations and mobility around 3000 BCE, from the steppes and around the Mediterranean pond; aDNA and cultures.
- Bronze age apogee and collapse: metals, warriors, trade and merchants in a sea of connections.
- Iron age and the first narrow Mediterranean: systems from the coasts inland and beyond Mediterranean limits.
- Systems of power growing in a divided sea: colonialism, archaic and classical societies.
- Romanization: the interconnected Mediterranean and around; a modern type of mobility?
- Crisis involves mobility: preparing the transit to the Middle Ages.

The students will be assigned arguments and papers for individual presentations or collective debate and seminars.
They will have to write a short paper for the final evaluation.

Second part of the course - prof. Federica Vacatello
This 6-CFU course aims to analyse the migration flows that affected the Italian Peninsula, Northern Europe, and the wider ancient Mediterranean following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, through the material evidence left by the peoples who progressively settled in the territories of the former Empire, such as settlements, necropolises, artefacts, and structures. The course will therefore address phenomena and contexts that constitute the foundations of Medieval Archaeology.
The course is seminar-based and includes an initial phase of lectures, structured around general introductory classes, in-depth lectures on specific topics, and guided visits to museums and Roman and Latial archaeological contexts that are particularly significant in relation to the phenomena discussed. The final part of the course will be devoted to the in-class discussion of individual PowerPoint presentations on specific research topics assigned or agreed upon with each student at the beginning of the course.
The topic of the in-class presentation will be chosen by each student and may focus on a barbarian culture, an archaeological context, or the student’s city of origin, provided that the latter is interconnected with the migration phenomena of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and, in any case, that the topic is consistent with the issues addressed during the course.

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
1. Annaert, R., De Groote, K., Hollevoet, Y., Theuws, F., Tys, D., & Verslype, L. (Eds.). (2012).
The very beginning of Europe? Cultural and social dimensions of early-medieval migration and colonisation (5th–8th century): Archaeology in Contemporary Europe, Conference Brussels – May 17–19 2011.
Brussels: Flanders Heritage Agency (Relicta Monografieën 7).
ISBN: 978-90-7523-034-5

2. Preiser-Kapeller, J., Reinfandt, L., & Stouraitis, Y. (Eds.). (2020).
Migration histories of the medieval Afroeurasian transition zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300–1500 C.E.
Leiden/Boston: Brill.
(Studies in Global Migration History, Vol. 13)
ISBN: 978-90-04-38249-7 (hardback), 978-90-04-42561-3 (e-book)
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425613

3. Callmer, J. (2007).
Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700–1100. In H. Hårdh & L. Larsson (Eds.), Centrality – Regionality: The social structure of southern Baltic coastal societies in the Iron Age (pp. 233–253).
Lund: University of Lund.


Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
First part of the course - prof. Alessandro Vanzetti
- Cyprian Broodbank 2013 - The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World, Oxford, OUP
Other papers and texts will be selected at the beginnings and during the course.

Second part of the course - prof. Federica Vacatello
For attending students, the exam programme includes the study of one text of the student’s choice among the three uploaded in the “Exam material” folder of the course Classroom, within the “Lavori del Corso” section, in addition to the preparation of the individual PowerPoint presentation to be discussed in class.
For non-attending students, the exam programme includes the study of all three texts uploaded in the “Exam material” folder of the course Classroom, within the “Lavori del Corso” section, in addition to the preparation of a short written paper on the topic agreed upon at the beginning of the course.
The exam readings are as follows:
1. The Very Beginning of Europe? Cultural and Social Dimensions of Early-Medieval Migration and Colonisation (5th–8th Century), eds. Rica Annaert, Koen De Groote, Yann Hollevoet, Frans Theuws, Dries Tys, Laurent Verslype, Brussels 2012.
2. Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone: Aspects of Mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300–1500 C.E., eds. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Lucian Reinfandt, Yannis Stouraitis, Leiden-Boston 2020.
3. Johan Callmer, Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700–1100.

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
1. Annaert, R., De Groote, K., Hollevoet, Y., Theuws, F., Tys, D., & Verslype, L. (Eds.). (2012).
The very beginning of Europe? Cultural and social dimensions of early-medieval migration and colonisation (5th–8th century): Archaeology in Contemporary Europe, Conference Brussels – May 17–19 2011.
Brussels: Flanders Heritage Agency (Relicta Monografieën 7).
ISBN: 978-90-7523-034-5

2. Preiser-Kapeller, J., Reinfandt, L., & Stouraitis, Y. (Eds.). (2020).
Migration histories of the medieval Afroeurasian transition zone: Aspects of mobility between Africa, Asia and Europe, 300–1500 C.E.
Leiden/Boston: Brill.
(Studies in Global Migration History, Vol. 13)
ISBN: 978-90-04-38249-7 (hardback), 978-90-04-42561-3 (e-book)
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425613

3. Callmer, J. (2007).
Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700–1100. In H. Hårdh & L. Larsson (Eds.), Centrality – Regionality: The social structure of southern Baltic coastal societies in the Iron Age (pp. 233–253).
Lund: University of Lund.


Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
General texts, to be presented for selected parts at the beginning and during the course.

- Franco De Angelis ed. 2020 - A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World, Wiley & Sons
- Jean Guilaine 1994 - La mer partagée : la Méditerranée avant l'écriture : 7000-2000 avant Jésus-Christ, Paris, Hachette
- Peregrine Horden & Nicholas Purcell 2000 - The corrupting sea. A Study of Mediterranean History, Wiley-Blackwell
- Elio Lo Cascio & Laurens E.Tacoma eds. 2016 - Between Mobility and Connectivity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Leiden, Brill

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
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Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
About 2/3 of the course will consist in academic lessons by the professor and invited scholars.
About 1/3 of the course will consist in students' presentations and discussion, based upon assigned papers and arguments.
Museum visits will complement class teaching.
The precise calendar will be defined in relation with the number of students, at the start of the course.

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
Regular attendance in class and participation in the guided visits are an integral part of the course.


Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
The sequential structure of the course requires a constant attendance.

Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH FROM PREHISTORY TO THE ROMAN AGE
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Module: HUMAN MIGRATIONS MOBILITY AND IDENTITIES IN LIFE AND DEATH LATE ANTIQUITY AND MIDDLE AGES
The evaluation is composed of:
- the evaluation of class attendance and of the participation to the class debate
- one oral presentation with the help of computer devices (e.g. MS Powerpoint), on a specific subject
- one written paper on the same specific subject
- oral questions (a couple) on general themes treated during the course

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