ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History
Areas: Prehistory
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Know the main aspects of cognitive and social development of the human species, models (archaeological and anthropological) associated to it, and its main manifestations: speech, religion and art on the one hand, and social models on the other.
1. Evolution and Cognition: "archeology of the mind." Fossil record, artifacts, models: possibilities and limitations. Archaeology and access to social complexity and thought.
2. Language. The acquisition of speech in the human evolutionary process. The debate over the Neanderthals. Writing.
3. Symbolic thought: the "art". Theories of Prehistoric art.
4: The symbolic thought: the "religion" and ritual behavior. Theories of "primitive" religion Religion and archeology.
5. Models applied to the study of prehistory: Human ethology, primate models and ethnoarchaeology. Anthropological models: from band societies to state organizations. Archaeological application.
Basic:
S. Mithen, Arqueología de la mente, Barcelona, Crítica, 1998.
C. Renfrew e E. Zubrow (eds.), The ancient mind. Elements of cognitive archaeology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
A. Rivera Arrizabalaga, Arqueología del lenguaje, Madrid, Akal, 2009.
A. Rivera y M. Menéndez, Manual de arqueología y paleoantropología cognitivas, UNED, 2023.
Leroi-Gourhan, A., 1985, Los primeros artistas de Europa. Introducción al arte parietal paleolítico, Ed. Encuentro.
Llinares García, Mar, 2012, Los lenguajes del silencio. Arqueologías de la religión, Madrid, Akal.
Specialized:
The bibliography will be offered in the classroom.
Understanding the possibilities and limitations of archaeological knowledge. Learning to analyze the archaeological material (from the point of view of society and mentality). Developing the ability to cross data and observations from different disciplines.
Expository teaching: classroom exposition of the content by the teacher. Preparation and presentation of a tutored work between 2/3 people on any of the contents of the subject. A list of works and an initial bibliography will be offered.The work will be presented in the classroom and script and bibliography will be delivered in the space enabled in the Virtual Classroom
Interactive teaching: on the indicated readings, and the viewing of films and documentaries: pooling in the classroom and preparation of a work. The materials will be available in the Virtual Classroom. The work will be delivered in the space provided in the Virtual Classroom.
Work on the content of expository teaching: up to 7 points. The assessment will be collective, but there will also be individual assessments (expression, ability to answer questions).
Work on the contents of interactive classes: up to 3 points
Failure to carry out the work on the expository teaching will suppose a Not presented
Deadline for homework delivery: official exam date
In the extraordinary call for evaluation, the score obtained on the items that were passed will be maintained and the part not passed or not completed will be repeated or delivered.
Attendance waiver: individual work will represent 100% of the grade.
Classes: 32 hours
Practices: 16 hours
Tutoring: 3 hours
Personal work and study: 70 hours
Total: 121 hours
To combine the attendance and participation in the Theoretical and Practical Classes with Personal Study of the Subject, trying to have the Subject up to date.
It is recommended the Functional Management of some of the Main Foreign Languages.
Teaching Language:Galician.
In the case of academic fraud, as defined in Article 42 of the Regulations establishing the rules of coexistence of the University of Santiago de Compostela, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 11. g) of the University Coexistence Law, the sanctions provided by the regulations will be applied. Among the premeditated behaviors aimed at falsifying the results of an exam or assignment are plagiarism and the unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence tools.
Maria Del Mar Llinares Garcia
Coordinador/a- Department
- History
- Area
- Prehistory
- Phone
- 881812571
- mar.llinares [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Miguel Carrero Pazos
- Department
- History
- Area
- Prehistory
- Phone
- 881812565
- miguel.carrero [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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