Colonial Archaeology
Code
711051137
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
André Pinto Dias Teixeira
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To understand patterns of Portuguese implantation in overseas territories between 15th and 18th centuries. This will be studied in a comparative perspective with identical processes occurred with other European colonial powers and considering the characteristics of indigenous people.
b) To dominate material evidence related to Portuguese expansion in the different parts of the world, both in urban coastal and rural inland contexts.
c) To identify structures and material culture resulting from the Portuguese presence abroad, acquiring a wider knowledge over Portuguese Late Medieval and Early Modern archaeology.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1.Urban settlements: functional articulation
2.Rural settlements
3.Mercantile Emporiums
4.Ports, maritime landscapes and ships
5.Defensive systems
6.Religious spaces and buildings
7.Domestic and palatial architecture
8.Urban and peri-urban manufactures
9.Mills and rural landscapes
10.Domestic daily life objects: kitchen ware, table-ware and warehouse tools; devotional and religious objects; household furniture; garments and ornamental accessories
11.Maritime cargo and life on board
12.Agricultural utensils
13.Military equipment
Bibliography
- AAVV, 1989, Escavações nas Casas de João Esmeraldo - Cristóvão Colombo. Funchal: Câmara Municipal do Funchal.
- DINTINO, Raffaella (coord.), 1998, Nossa Senhora dos Mártires. A última viagem. Lisboa: Pavilhão de Portugal - Expo 98 / Verbo.
- DEAGAN, Kathleen, 2002, Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean 1500-1800. Washington / Londres: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2 vols..
- LOPES, Conceição, ETCHEVARNE, Carlos (ed.), 2009, Anais do 1° Forum Luso-Brasileiro de Arqueologia Urbana. Salvador, Fast Design.
- READMEN, Charles, 1986, Qsar es-Seghir: an Archaeological view of medieval life. Nova Iorque, Academic Press.
Teaching method
Theoretical classes with audiovisual support.
Practical classes supported by cartographical maps, iconography and archaeological materials from this period, as well as texts and drawings resulting from archaeological investigation.
Visits to museums.
Evaluation method
Two evaluation elements: one written test (40% of the final mark), one individual or group final paper, three students maximum (60% of the final mark)