Module HTA-3116:
Later Prehistoric Communities
Later Prehistoric Communities 2023-24
HTA-3116
2023-24
School Of History, Law And Social Sciences
Module - Semester 1 & 2
20 credits
Module Organiser:
Peter Shapely
Overview
- Introduction: the main themes and chronologies;x000D
- Home is where the hearth is: later Bronze Age settlements;x000D
- Dividing the land: later Bronze Age land tenure;x000D
- Metals make the world go round: later Bronze Age practices;x000D
- The Earliest Iron Age transition (800-600BC): shifting practices and technologies;x000D
- Creating communities: making middens (c. 900 - 450 BC);x000D
- Creating communities: making hillforts (c. 900 - 450 BC);x000D
- Corporate groups: earlier Iron Age farmsteads and enclosures;x000D
- The substantial roundhouses of Scotland;x000D
- The rise of the individual: Iron Age burial practices;x000D
- The first towns? The developed hillforts of Wessex (c. 450 - 100 BC).x000D
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the nature of the archaeological evidence of later prehistoric Britain (e.g. site types; material culture).
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the regional characteristics of the archaeological evidence.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the chronological schemes which have been established for the later Bronze Age and earlier Iron Age of Britain.
- Evaluate competing interpretations of social change and social models that have been offered by archaeologists.
- Show a familiarity with the primary archaeological evidence and analyse a data-set (e.g. derived from excavation reports).
- Show an awareness of the changes in society and social organisation which took place during the later Bronze Age and earlier Iron Age of Britain.