Archaeology of Commercial Networks
Code
722051397
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Development of critical thinking (typological, stratigraphic and statistical) on the presence of imports in several archaeological sites, at a local, regional and supra-regional scale.
Understanding of the historical and archaeological framework of complex trade relations, in small, medium and long distance.
Identifying of crucial aspects of material culture, productive structures and diffusion over variuos historical phases (small, medium and long distance).
Prerequisites
Not applicable
Subject matter
Operative concepts for commercial analysis in Archaeology: statistical and geo-economical tools; characteristics of land-born, river-born and sea-born trade over the long diachrony.
Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Republican Period: main vectors of contact with Mediterraneam and Atlantic in the actual Portuguese territory.
High-Empire: trade networks between the western Mediterranean
Late Antiquity: trade networks between eastern Mediterranean and Atlantic.
Middle Age and Modrn Period: new models and new geographical coverage.
Bibliography
ARNAUD, P., 2005 Les routes de la navigation antique. Itinéraires en Mediterranée. Paris : Éditions Errance.
DEAGAN, K. (2002) - Artifacts of the Spanish colonies of Florida and the Caribbean 1500-1800. Washington / Londres: Smithsonian. 2vols..
HORDEN, P.; PURCELL, N. (2000) The corrupting sea. A study of Mediterranean History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
MANNING, J. G.; MORRIS, I., eds. (2007) - The Ancient Economy: evidence and models. Stanford: University.
McPHERSON, K. (1998) - The Indian Ocean. A History of the People and the Sea. Nova Deli: Oxford University Press.
REYNOLDS, P. (2010) Hispania and the Roman Mediterranean. AD 100-700. Ceramics and trade. London: Duckworth.
ROSSELLÓ BORDOY, G., ed. (1997) - Transferències i comerç de ceràmica a l´Europa mediterrània: segles XIV-XVII. Palma: Institut d´Estudis Baleàrics.
TRACY, J. D. (1993) - The Rise of merchant empires: long distance trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750. Cambridge: University Press.
Teaching method
In class teaching
Evaluation method
Written work (15-20 pages): 80%
Text comment (in class): 20%