A: Formazione e sviluppo delle civiltà preistoriche del Mediterraneo centro orientale fino all’inizio del II millennio a.C. (3 CFU)
B: La ceramica in archeologia: tecnologia, funzione e identità culturale (3 CFU)
C: Tradizioni tecnologiche nella ceramica (3 CFU).
Il corso sarà impartito in lingua inglese.

Modulo A) (3 CFU)
- C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea. A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World, capitoli I-VII, pp. 15-344;

Modulo B) (3 CFU)
- P. Rice, Pottery Analysis: a sourcebook, University of Chicago Press, 2006 (ca. 350 più illustrazioni);
- P. Rice, On the Origins of Pottery. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6, 1999, pp. 1-54.

Modulo C) (3 CFU)
-S. Van Der Leeuw, Give the potter a choice. Conceptual aspects of pottery techniques, in P. Lemonnier (ed.), Technological Choices. Transformation in material cultures since the Neolithic, London and New York 1993, pp. 238-288;
- B. Sillar, Reputable pots and disreputable potters: Individual and community choices in present-day pottery productions and exchanges in the Andes, in Ch. Cumberpatch and P. Blinkhorn (eds.), Not So Much a Pot, More a Way of Life (Oxford 1997), pp. 1–20;
- D. Arnold, Patterns of learning, residence and descent among potters in Ticul, Yucatan, Mexico, in St. Shennan (ed.), Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, (London 1989), 174–184;
- O. Gosselain, Materializing Identities: An African Perspective, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7 (3) (2000), 187-217;
- P. Day, M. Relaki, and E. Faber, Pottery making and social reproduction in Bronze Age Mesara, in M. Wiener, J. Warner, J. Polonsky, and E. Hayes (eds.), Pottery and Society. The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery, Philadelphia 2006 , pp. 22-72;
- S. Todaro, Pottery production in the Prepalatial Mesara: The artisans’ quarter to the west of the Palace at Phaistos, in Creta Antica 10.2 (2009), pp. 333-352.
- S. Todaro, Tradizioni tecnologiche e identità culturale: la produzione ceramica nella Creta dell’Antica e Media età del Bronzo, in F. Carinci, P. Militello, O. Palio, Studi in onore di La Rosa, Padova 2011, pp. 71-86;
- S. Todaro, (2012). Craft Production and Social Practice at Prepalatial Phaistos: the Background to the first palace, in J. Driessen, I. Schoep and P. Tomkins (eds), Back to the Beginning: Reassessing social, economic and political complexity in the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete (Leuven 1-2/2/2008), Oxford, pp. 195-235.