Prehistory studies man’s farming from his appearance on the earth to the period in which he began using written language. This subject builds on general knowledge and deals with a specific region (Liguria). This enables students to become familiar with Ligurian prehistory but it also enables understanding what happened afterwards and thus to insert “history” into the natural evolution of the life of man using previous experience and knowledge (prehistory) to build the future (Roman, Medieval eras etc.)
Farming in Liguria from the Palaeolithic period to the Bronze age will be considered with some elements of the first Iron age in the 8th and 5th centuries BC. Particular attention will be paid to those sites that have been fundamental to situating the presence of single crops in the Ligurian context also in relation to the bordering countries and regions. At the end of the course, students must produce a brief written paper on one of the topics treated, of their own choosing.
Teaching will be done through lectures with the support of images to better define the arguments tackled. During lectures students will be asked to intervene in order to ascertain their level of learning. A visit to a Ligurian museum of prehistory will also be organised.
Farming in Liguria from the Palaeolithic era to the first Iron age will be analysed taking into consideration all the discoveries and main sites. Findings form the most important deposits will be studied in order to reconstruct the history of Ligurian civilisation during various periods also in relation to events in the bordering regions and countries. Moreover, the main sites of the first Iron Age will be studied. At the end of the course students must prepare a paper on a topic of choice.
GIULIVA ODETTI (President)
CLAUDIO SORRENTINO
PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY OF LIGURIA
The oral exam will assess the quality of learning of notions of Ligurian prehistory. Moreover, it will assess the capacity to discuss single events of these periods and the interconnections between historical processes and their resolution. There will always be a question to examine students’ capacity to reason and make deductions. Evaluation will take account of all these parameters and will consider students’ capacity to demonstrate and argue their theses and to sustain a discussion.
Students who do not attend must always contact teaching staff to agree on a programme.
