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Erasmus code: 08.4
ISCED code: 0222
ECTS credits:
unknown
Language:
English
Organized by:
Institute of Archaeology
(in Polish) 25 Centuries of Timekeeping. Introduction to the Maya Archaeology 3101-AK25
Cultural components processed during the course:
- geography of Mesoamerica and the Maya world,
- natural environment,
- chronology (archaic, preclassic, classic, postclassic, and colonial periods),
- abbreviated history of selected sites,
- inner-regional politics of the Maya,
- religion and "cosmovisión",
- writing and art,
- calendar and mathematics,
- architecture, urbanism, "built environment",
- collapses of the Maya culture,
- conquest,
- contemporary Maya.
Type of course
supplementary
Mode
Classroom
Learning outcomes
Activity in class (discussions),
Presence (2 absences acceptable)
Oral exam comprising the covered topics and the given literature.