Industrial Archaeology
Code
722051087
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To enlarge (or widen to expand) and to go through the knowledge of industrial archaeology in different historic and archaeological contexts
b) To develop the theory and the practice in industrial archeological fieldwork, that make propitious technological competences, field techniques and also the capacity of management archaeological fieldworks
c) To proportionate new levels of theoretical and technical knowledge, that they consent to examine, in a critic way, the sites, the industrial objects and complexes, the buildings, the industrial architectures and the industrial landscapes, and to express hypothesis, to proceed records and schedules, to interpret the sites and artifacts and to write reports and synthesis
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
I. Introduction
Theoretical reasons of Industrial Archaeology
II. Industrial landscapes
1. Analysing the industrial landscapes
2. Spatial relationships amongst landscapes
3. Typologies and historic dating
4. Linear landscapes
5. Mines landscapes
6. The industry urbanization: forms and process
6.1 Town industrial specialized landscapes
6.2 Townscapes of XIX.th and XX.th centuries
III. Scientific method and fieldwork techniques of industrial archaeology
1. Interdisciplinar methodologies
2. Fieldworks stratigraphies
3. Harmonizing methodology
4. Archaeological recording methods
5. Relationship between industrial architecture and technology
6. Artefacts and industrial products
IV. Social and economic landscapes and industrial archaeology
1. Industrial organization and working
2. Material and intangible industrial culture
Bibliography
CASELLA, Eleanor Conlin & SYMONDS, James(Edited by), Industrial Archaeology. Futures Directions, New York: Springler,
2005, 321 pp.
CUSTÓDIO, J., A Real Fábrica dos Vidros de Coina e o Vidro em Portugal no século XVIII, Aspectos Históricos,
Tecnológicos, Artísticos e Arqueológicos, Lisboa, IPPAR/CMB. 2002, 379 pp.
DEULIN, N. DE H. et al, Les ouvrages hydrauliques, Soiron, Éditions Pérron, 1997, 299 pp.
HUDSON, K., The Archaeology of the Consumer Society, The Second Industrial Revolution in Britain, London, Heinemann,
1983, 121 pp.
PALMER, M. E NEARVERSON, M., Industrial Archaelogy, Principles and practice, London, Routledge. 1998, 180 pp.
STRATTON, M. & TRINDER, B., Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology, London, E&FN. Spon, 2000, 236 pp.
Teaching method
Theoretical illustrated teaching. Critic discussion of previous proposal industrial archaeology themes and different types of documents. Exercises of critic commentaries. Practice teaching in classroom and in archaeological fieldwork context. Theory and practice teaching in study visits, guaranteed the contact of the seminar student with the industrial heritage, as buildings, industrial museums, and archaeological and industrial workspaces. 50% of practice class, involved studys visits. Oriented activities, as conference´s participation.
Evaluation method
Writing, presentation and discussion two individual study work about the unit class subjects, preceding a previous intention plan in the classroom context (50 % each one). The students are approved with the media equal a ten valuables or more