Archaeology of Later Periods (Selected Topics)

The course consists of selected topics. The discussed topics change from one year to another. Lectures are connected to the seminar. This course is regarding contents linked with the course Fieldwork.

Every year individual selected topics from the field of historical archaeology are discussed in depth: settlement structures, economy (subsistence activities, mining, crafts, trade etc.), religions and beliefs, attitude towards death and burial in the Middle Ages and New Age, archaeology of colonialism, industrial archaeology. Amounts of written versus material sources. Possibilities of social interpretations of material (archaeological) sources with the use of modern archaeological theories and concepts.

ANDREN, A., Between Artefacts and Texts. Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective. – New York, London: Plenum Press, 1998. 215 str./pp. COBISS.SI-ID - 21629026
PREDOVNIK, K., Cur archaeologia mediaevalis? – Časopis za kritiko znanosti 200–201, Ljubljana 2000, str./pp. 31–51. COBISS.SI-ID – 672783
GERRARD, C., Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches. – London, New York: Routledge, 2003. 302 str./pp. COBISS.SI-ID - 82937
MEHLER, N. (ur./ed.), Historical Archaeology in Central Europe. - Rockville, Maryland: Society for Historical Archaeology, 2013. 419 str./pp. (izbrana poglavja / selected chapters). COBISS.SI-ID - 51989858
TARLOW, S. (ur./ed.), The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe. - De Gruyter, 2016. 237 str./pp. (izbrana poglavja / selected chapters). https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/41182
GAIMSTER, D., MAJEWSKI, T. (ur./eds.), International Handbook of Historical Archaeology. - New York, Springer, 2009 (izbrana poglavja / selected chapters). https://link-springer-com.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/book/10.1007/978-0-387-7…

Additional reading lists are available on Faculty web pages.