HST380.16 Prehistoric Art and Its Symbology (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

• Theme 1. Introduction to Prehistoric Art. The concept of art and its evolution. Discovery of prehistoric art. Other artistic manifestations.
• Theme 2. Paleolithic Art, support and distribution. The art furniture. Geography of Paleolithic art according to its supporters. Supporting material of furniture art. Themes, techniques and conventions.
• Theme 3. Wall and cave art. Techniques and themes. The techniques for wall and cave art. Thematic groups. Conventions and aspects that compose it.
• Theme 4. Chronology and interpretation of Paleolithic art. Systems for dating and artistic cycles. The origins of art and its evolution during the Paleolithic. Interpretations.
• Theme 5. The great combinations of Paleolithic Art. Principal combinations of parietal art, cave and furniture in Europe. Paleolithic art in other continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, America.
• Theme 6. Tardiglaciar art and the beginnings of the Holocene. From tardiglaciar art to the epipaleolithic: V style and aziliense art. Other European combinations in the Near East.
• Theme 7. Macro-schematic art and Levantine art. Distribution and combination. Levantine and macro-schematic art, concept and principal combinations. The development of macro-schematic art and its chronology: cave and vascular art.
• Theme 8. Levantine art. Techniques and themes. Chronology. Techniques and themes, scenes and compositional aspects. The chronological discussion and its relationship with economic, social and territorial aspects. The art of North Africa and the Sahara.
• Theme 9. Schematic art. Techniques, themes and styles. Concept of schematic art. Paint and graven. Principal themes and its variations.
• Theme 10. Chronologies and principal schematic art groups in Europe. Geographic distribution and chronology of schematic art. Furnishing art.
• Theme 11. Megalithic art: cave, furnishing and vascular art. The birth of architecture. Concept of megalithic art. Techniques, thematic motives and principal supporters. Architectonic combination: megalithic and temples. Geographic distribution and chronology.
• Theme 12. The art of the Atlantic world. Wall art from Scandinavia and the Canaries.
• Theme 13. Towards the complex societies of the first millennium. The trail of the final Bronze and its context. Other artistic combinations
  Theme 14. Conservation of prehistoric art and its placement as patrimonial value. Prehistoric artistic patrimony. Furnished and unfurnished property. Its conservation, documentation and diffusion. Prehistoric art in museums.

(16904, Arte Prehistórico y Su Simbología)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. 

Block I

• Metallurgy: materials and techniques. Birth and development of complex societies. Socioeconomic and ideological transformations in the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age.
• The birth of complex societies in the Near East, Egypt, China, Indian Valley, and America.
• Europe in the III Millennium BCE. Agricultural intensification and the advances of metallurgy: cultural variety with reference to the Iberian Peninsula

Block II

• Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages in the Aegean. Cycladic, Minoan and Helladic-Mycenaean archaeology.
• The Early and Middle Bronze Ages in Europe: regional groups. Principal traits and groups in the Iberian Peninsula.
• Late Bronze Age in Europe. Technological innovations. Intensification of interchanges. Diversification of funeral rituals. Atlantic Bronze/Continental Bronze Ages and their incidence on the Iberian Peninsula.

Block III

• The 1st Millennium BCE: Periods. Materials and techniques. The metallurgy of iron.
• Iron I in Europe. Regional diversity. Hallstatt as culturally complex. The Eastern impact on the peninsula.
• Iron II in Europe. La Tène as culturally complex. General panorama of the Iberian Peninsula in the pre-Roman period.

(16885, Prehistoria Reciente)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. 

I. The Transition from the Ancient to the Medieval

• Visigoth Hispania.

II. Muslim Spain (eighth through twelfth centuries)

• Evolution and political organization of al-Andalus.
• Society and economy in al-Andalus.
• Thought and culture in al-Andalus.

III. Formation and Evolution of the Christian Kingdoms (eighth through twelfth centuries)

• Genesis and evolution of peninsular monarchies.
• Society and border dynamics.
• The economic structure.
• Church, religiosity, and culture.

Meets with SPA 380.4.

(19015, Génesis de la Edad Media Peninsular)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish.

1. Introduction
2. The Augustan Principate
3. Julio-Claudian and Flavian Dynasties
4. The Antonine Empire
5. Severan Dynasty and the Military Anarchy
6. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
7. Constantine and Valentinian Dynasties
8. Theodosius and the partitio imperii
9. Barbarian migrations
10. Roman-Germanic kingdoms and the renovatio imperii

(16923, Historia de la Roma Imperial)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

• The Iberian Empires. Portuguese maritime expansion. The Castilian monarchy’s colonization of the African Coast and Canary Islands. The conquest of America and its impact on indigenous populations.
• The rise of the Northern European Empires. The institutional framework supporting the trade of the Dutch Empire. Its competition and disputes with the Iberian Empires.
• The British and French Empires in the New World. Religious and political change. Colonization and Franco-British conflicts.
• The Colonial World in the Eighteenth Century. The First and Second British Empires in the East and West. The influence of the Enlightenment and the crisis of independence movements. The British loss of the Thirteen Colonies.

(16946, Historia de la Expansión Europea)