(in Polish) Environment and culture during the Ice Age
1201-OG-EN-ECDIA
Classes encompass the following topics:
1 – environmental adaptation patterns of the early hominids;
2 – environmental adaptation patterns in the Lower Paleolithic;
3 – Neanderthal environmental adaptation patterns in the Middle Paleolithic;
4 –patterns of cultural adaptation to the tundra environment;
5. Gravettian as an example of the Upper Paleolthic adaptation to the tundra and steppe environment;
6 – Magdalenian techno-complex in the late Pleistocene landscape;
7 – patterns of cave adaptation to inhabitation;
8 – Environmental adaptation patterns of the Late Paleolithic cultures (tundra and forest);
9 – methods of adaptation to the tundra environment;
10 – examples of Palaeolithic adaptation patterns to the cool steppe environment;
11 – inhabitation of forests of the moderate zone in the Palaeolithic;
12 –environmental adaptation patterns of the contemporary hunters and gatherers.
Total student workload
Contact hours with teacher:
np.
– participation in lectures – 15 hrs
– consultations – 5 hrs
Self-study hours:
– preparation for lectures – 7 hrs
– writing essays/ papers/projects – 18 hrs
– reading literature – 10 hrs
– preparation for test – 0 hrs
– preparation for examination – 0 hrs
Altogether: 55 hrs (2 ECTS)
Learning outcomes - knowledge
– W1: Student has basic/advanced knowledge of different forms of cultural adaptation to a diversified Pleistocene environment;
– W2: Student knows/ possesses knowledge of different Pleistocene bioms, ecological niches and ecotones, in which consecutive Palaeolithic cultures developed;….
– W3: Student is familiar with different cultures of hunters-gatherers and their relationship with the natural environment
– W4: Student is acquainted with a spatial range, chronology, climatic phases of the applied technologies of mineral and organic raw material, the method of obtaining food, elements of symbolic culture and the way of life of creators of particular cultural traditions.
Learning outcomes - skills
– U1: Student is able to/has the ability to can use the acquired knowledge about cultural adaptation to the environment during the interpretation of the possible economic functions of the observed Palaeo- and Mesolithic assemblages.
– U2: Student can analyse/define/ demonstrate/explain different Pleistocene bioms, ecological niches and ecotones, in which consecutive Palaeolithic cultures developed
Learning outcomes - social competencies
– K1: Students is aware of the importance of mutual relationships between particular elements of the natural environment, its entire structure and a cultural identity of human groups inhabiting a given territory at a given time
Teaching methods
Expository teaching methods:
– informative lecture
-seminar assisted with multimedia presentations
Prerequisites
Becoming acquainted with adaptation patterns of the Paleolithic cultures to the Pleistocene environm
Course coordinators
Assessment criteria
Assessment methods:
– assessment of a prepared written essay,
-presence and active participation in classes
Assessment criteria:
fail – … pts (<50%)
satisfactory – … pts (50%)
satisfactory plus – … pts (60%)
good – … pts (75%)
good plus – … pts (85%)
very good – … pts (90%)
Additional information
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