Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate critical knowledge of the key developments in the 3rd & 4th millennia BC in Ireland and Britain, and the debates about these
2. Evaluate and contrast the main sources of evidence and theoretical assumptions used to underpin different interpretations
3. Outline how current theoretical approaches can be applied to build critically informed alternatives to obsolete narratives of life in Ireland during the deep past
4. Consider how approaches to the past shape our understanding of present-day Ireland and Britain.
6. Demonstrate competencies in a wide range of transferable skills, such as:
---------------------- comparing and contrasting different forms of archaeological information
----------------------- evaluating evidence and alternative ideas
---------------------- investigating interpretations and identifying problems
---------------------- articulating your observations and arguments about these
---------------------- contributing to and leading group discussion
---------------------- clear, concise, and analytical writing skills
---------------------- increased tolerance for ambiguity
Indicative Module Content:
Topics include settlements, monuments, material culture, burial rites, depositional practices, regionality, mobility, kinship, gender, identity, innovations, power, and posthumanism.
The module focuses most closely on Ireland and Britain, but international examples across north-west Europe will also be drawn upon where appropriate to show how the Irish evidence fits/contrasts with that from the near Continent.