Guías Docentes Electrónicas
1. General information
Course:
ARCHAEOLOGY OF DEATH AND BURIAL
Code:
66234
Type:
ELECTIVE
ECTS credits:
6
Degree:
371 - UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMME IN HISTORY
Academic year:
2023-24
Center:
2 - FACULTY OF LETTERS
Group(s):
21 
Year:
Sin asignar
Duration:
C2
Main language:
Spanish
Second language:
Use of additional languages:
English Friendly:
Y
Web site:
Bilingual:
N
Lecturer: DAVID RODRIGUEZ GONZALEZ - Group(s): 21 
Building/Office
Department
Phone number
Email
Office hours
Facultad de Letras. Despacho 306
HISTORIA
david.rodriguez@uclm.es

2. Pre-Requisites

It is essential to continue in this subject with the aim of acquiring and consolidating the terminology of the discipline of History and Archeology. In this sense insists on the control of terms and concepts of Archeology and History
- to avoid anachronism in the analysis of social and political history
- to integrate and assemble historical processes into a future built by men and women, discerning social structures, power relations and economic changes, as well as the role of the individual in history.
- Connecting the past with the present as a formula for historical understanding It will also be stressed, it will never be assumed, that students must learn in this subject
- The mastery of written and oral expression techniques, above all should have the ability to develop critical reviews of the proposed texts.
- as well as bibliography and sources

3. Justification in the curriculum, relation to other subjects and to the profession

The subject develops the contents of the subject
Archeology,
of the module
MODULE 4: INTENSIFICATIONS IN HISTORY (or MENTIONS). Heritage Historical Itinerary
of the degree
History
and develops contents of the area
Prehistory
It has professionalizing character Yes x
Do not
In the Degree Program of History is an optional subject, essential to acquire the appropriate professional knowledge of an archaeological subdiscipline within the first intensification Historical Heritage. It is integrated into the core of optional compulsory subjects of MODULE 4: INTENSIFICATIONS in HISTORY or ITINERARIES It is integrated into the core of optional compulsory subjects of the Historical Heritage Itinerary. Professionally it is also a necessary subject to prepare the access to the diverse oppositions existing in the bodies of Museums, Historical Heritage Technicians, Archaeologists, Cultural Agents, etc.
The contents of this program are coordinated with those taught in the 1st course on Archeology and Universal Prehistory, in the 2nd course on Peninsular Prehistory and in 3rd on Protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula.


4. Degree competences achieved in this course
Course competences
Code Description
B02 Apply the knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner, as well as possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of ¿¿study.
B03 Collect and interpret data in the historical discipline to make judgments that include a reflection on social, scientific and ethical issues.
B04 Transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized and non-specialized public.
B05 Develop those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy
E01 Detailed knowledge of each of the specific periods of the past of human societies and of the phases of transition and change between some stages and others
E02 Know the historical sources, both archaeological and documentary and the new resources and information support for the history
E03 Know the information resources both the bibliographic catalogs, as well as the inventories of archives and audiovisual and computer bases
E35 Ability to handle the basic terminology of social and cultural anthropology
G03 Proper oral and written communication (Common for all UCLM degrees)
T01 Capacity for analysis, synthesis, organization and planning
T02 Information management capacity
T07 Critical thinking
T08 Autonomous learning
5. Objectives or Learning Outcomes
Course learning outcomes
Description
Acquire a markedly professional orientation training in the knowledge of the valuation of the archaeological, documentary and bibliographic historical heritage, as well as the regulations and keys to its conservation and dissemination.
Deepen the knowledge of the period of Prehistory
Obtain a training in Applied Archeology
Additional outcomes
Description
6. Units / Contents
  • Unit 1:
  • Unit 2:
  • Unit 3:
  • Unit 4:
7. Activities, Units/Modules and Methodology
Training Activity Methodology Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021) ECTS Hours As Com Description
Class Attendance (practical) [ON-SITE] Lectures B02 B04 B05 E02 E03 E35 T07 2.3 57.5 Y N
Final test [ON-SITE] B02 B03 B04 B05 E01 E02 0.1 2.5 Y N
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE] Practical or hands-on activities B02 B03 B04 B05 E03 E35 T01 T02 T07 T08 3.6 90 Y N
Total: 6 150
Total credits of in-class work: 2.4 Total class time hours: 60
Total credits of out of class work: 3.6 Total hours of out of class work: 90

As: Assessable training activity
Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming (It will be essential to overcome both continuous and non-continuous assessment).

8. Evaluation criteria and Grading System
Evaluation System Continuous assessment Non-continuous evaluation * Description
Practical exam 30.00% 30.00%
Theoretical exam 70.00% 70.00%
Total: 100.00% 100.00%  
According to art. 4 of the UCLM Student Evaluation Regulations, it must be provided to students who cannot regularly attend face-to-face training activities the passing of the subject, having the right (art. 12.2) to be globally graded, in 2 annual calls per subject , an ordinary and an extraordinary one (evaluating 100% of the competences).

Evaluation criteria for the final exam:
  • Continuous assessment:
    Evaluation criteria not defined
  • Non-continuous evaluation:
    Evaluation criteria not defined

Specifications for the resit/retake exam:
Evaluation criteria not defined
Specifications for the second resit / retake exam:
Evaluation criteria not defined
9. Assignments, course calendar and important dates
Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours hours

Unit 1 (de 4):
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (practical) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 15

Unit 2 (de 4):
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (practical) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 15

Unit 3 (de 4):
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (practical) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 15

Unit 4 (de 4):
Activities Hours
Class Attendance (practical) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures] 15

Global activity
Activities hours
10. Bibliography and Sources
Author(s) Title Book/Journal Citv Publishing house ISBN Year Description Link Catálogo biblioteca
BAHN, P. Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead. CAMBRIDGE U. PRESS 2003  
BROTHWELL, D.R . Desenterrando huesos. La excavación, tratamiento y estudio de restos del esqueleto humano. Fondo de Cultura Económica 1987  
FERNÁNDEZ DEL RIESGO, M Antropología de la muerte: los límites de la razón y el exceso de la religión Sintesis 2003  
GARCÍA HUERTA, R., MORALES, J., RODRIGUEZ GONZÁLEZ, D. De la muerte a la eternidad: la necrópolis ibérica de Alarcos, Ciudad Real Sintesis 2019  
KING, B.J. Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion. Doubleday Publishing 2007  
SAYER, D. y WILLIANS, H. Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages essays in burial archaeology in honor of Heinrich Härke. University Of Exeter. Exeter Press 2009  
UBELAKER, D.H Enterramientos humanos: excavación, análisis, interpretación Munibe (Antropologia-Arkeologia), 2007  
WADE, N. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. Penguin Press 2006  



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