Belief and Expression in Prehistoric Britain offered by Oxford University
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1 Campus- Estd. 1096
Belief and Expression in Prehistoric Britain at Oxford University Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Total fee | ₹19,000 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Belief and Expression in Prehistoric Britain at Oxford University Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
Belief and Expression in Prehistoric Britain at Oxford University Course details
- Describe the forms of evidence that can tell us about British prehistoric belief systems and how they were expressed
- Interpret the evidence for belief and expression for given periods of prehistory (eg later Neolithic, early Bronze Age, late Iron Age, etc)
- Evaluate the evidence for a correspondence between prehistoric belief systems and their expression through ceremony, ritual, art and design
- Examine the physical and documentary evidence for belief systems
- This course will explore the evidence for belief systems and imaginative thought in prehistoric Britain from the great Neolithic monuments of stone and earth through to the emergence of classical written accounts of the Iron Age druids
- The course will explore how prehistoric communities expressed and practised their beliefs through monument building and landscape shaping, art, design, crafts, burial practices, ceremony and and ritual
- Explore the motives for assembling the labour required to construct Mesolithic middens, the Neolithic monuments of Stonehenge, Avebury, and the 'super-settlement' of the Ness of Brodgar
Belief and Expression in Prehistoric Britain at Oxford University Curriculum
Week 0
An Introduction to Teams
Week 1
A brief introduction to Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age Britain: chronology and culture
Week 2
Assessing the evidence for prehistoric belief systems and forms of expression
Week 3
Spaces for the dead and places for the living: shaping the Neolithic landscape
Week 4
The material expression of belief and intention: Neolithic rock art, artefacts, and commodities
Week 5
Borrowing from the past and creating anew: monuments, metals and magic in the earlier Bronze Age
Week 6
A sense of community: expressing culture through ancestor veneration, boundaries, feasting, and votive offerings in the later Bronze Age
Week 7
New technologies, new ideas: the impact of cultural and technological exchange between Britain and Europe in the earlier Iron Age
Week 8
Sacred sites and special people: the literary and material evidence for religion, priesthood and ritual in later Iron Age Britain
Week 9
The concepts of art and design in later Iron Age Britain: expression through Celtic art and design
Week 10
Ideas in a wider world: beliefs, influences and methods of expression in prehistoric Britain and beyond
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