Mediterranean Archaeology

The course aims at exploring the main cultural and socio-economic processes that characterise the Prehistory of the Mediterranean, from the Palaeolithic to the Early Iron Age. The goal is to provide the students with both theoretical models and analytic knowledge in order to develop skills in the understanding of complex phenomena such as the first human peopling, the hunter-gatherers dynamics of the Pleistocene, the affirmation of the first productive economy, the development of the metallurgy, the emergence of social inequalities and the development of complex societies, taking into account the intertwined phenomena of interaction between the diverse Mediterranean areas.