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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Archaeology & Ancient near East
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Rivka Rabinovich
Coordinator Office Hours:
upon e-mail requirements
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Rivka Rabinovich
Course/Module description:
Elephants fasinates people. The course is aimed to go through the unique biological characteristics of the group, and the nteraction with humans in the past and today.
Course/Module aims:
Our aim is to lear about a uniques species group through its interaction with human in the past and today.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
General knowledge of the elephants
Historical background of the explotaiton around the word
Moral aspects of the curretn status of the species
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal
Course/Module Content:
Evolution of the group
The biology and natural history of elephants
Elephants in the archaeological record.
Extinctions
Domesticaiton or teaming?
Elephant of war - myth and evidences
The status of elephants nowdays in Africa and Asia - current research
Student's seminars
Required Reading:
Boschian, G., Saccà, D., 2010. Ambiguities in human and elephant interactions? Stories of bones, sand and water from Castel di Guido (Italy). Quaternary International 214, 3–16.
Christiansen, P., 2004. Body size in proboscideans, with notes on elephant metabolism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140, 523-549.
Conybeare, A., Haynes, G., 1984. Observations of Elephant mortality and bones in Water Holes. Quaternary Research 22, 189-200.
Fisher, Jr., J.W., 2001. Elephant butchery practices in the lturi Forest, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and their relevance for interpreting human activities at prehistoric proboscidean sites. In: West, D., (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Mammoth Site Studies Publications in Anthropology 22. University of Kansas, Lawrence, pp. 1-10.
Gaudzinski, S., Turner, E., Anzidei, A.P., Alvarez-Fernández, E., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Cinq-Mars, J., Dobosi, V.T., Hannus, A., Johnson, E., Münzel, S.C., Scheer, A., Villa, P., 2005. The use of proboscidean remains in every-day Palaeolithic life. Quaternary International 126-128, 179-194.
Goren-Inbar, N., Lister, A., Werker, E., Chech, M., 1994. A butchered elephant skull and associated artifacts from the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. Paléorient 20, 99-112.
Lister, A.M., 2004. Ecological interactions of Elephantids in Pleistocene Eurasia: Palaeoloxodon and Mammuthus. In: Goren-Inbar, N., Speth, J. (Eds.), Palaeoecology of the Levantine Corridor. Oxbow Books, Oxford, pp.53-60.
Mussi, M., Villa, P., 2008. Single carcass of Mammuthus primigenius with lithic artifacts in the Upper Pleistocene of northern Italy. Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 2606–2613.
Sukumar, R., 2003.The living elephants. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Surovell, T., Waguespack, N., Brantingham, P.J., 2005.Global archaeological evidence for proboscidean overkill. PNAS 102 (17), 6231–6236.
Tchernov, E., Shoshani, J., 1996. Proboscidean remains in the southern Levant. In: Shoshani, J., Tassy, P. (Eds.), The Proboscidea: Evolution and Palaeoecology of elephants and their relatives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 225-233.
Yravedra, J., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M., Santonja, M., Perz-Gonzalez, A., Panera, J., Rubio-Jara, S., Baquedano, E., 2010. Cut marks on the Middle Pleistocene elephant carcass of Aridos 2 (Madrid, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 2469-2476.
Additional Reading Material:
Every student according to its on research project
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Home Exam / Referat 60 %
Presentation / Poster Presentation / Lecture/ Seminar / Pro-seminar / Research proposal 40 %
Additional information:
A visit to the National Natural History Collections at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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