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B027334 - ARCHEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST 1
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Academic Year 2017-18
Coorte 2017 - Second Cycle Degree in ARCHAEOLOGY
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/05 - ANCIENT NEAR EAST ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
18/09/2017 ⇒ 20/12/2017
Attendance required
Yes
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Equality and disequality in Society: regional economy and adaptive Systems in archaeology: Anatolia and the Levant between Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Frangipane, Marcella, La nascita dello stato nel Vicino Oriente, Bari: Laterza, 1996.
Frangipane, Marcella, Different types of egalitarian societies and the development of inequality in early Mesopotamia, World Archaeology 39/2 (2007), pp. 151-176.
Akkermans, P. M. M. G., Schwartz, G. M., 2003. The Archaeology of Syria. From complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c. 16,000-300 bc), Cambridge.(capitoli 7-8, pp.211-287)
Bachhuber, Ch., Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 13), Equinox Publishing Ltd, Glasgow 2015.
Frangipane, Marcella, Different types of egalitarian societies and the development of inequality in early Mesopotamia, World Archaeology 39/2 (2007), pp. 151-176.
Akkermans, P. M. M. G., Schwartz, G. M., 2003. The Archaeology of Syria. From complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies (c. 16,000-300 bc), Cambridge.(capitoli 7-8, pp.211-287)
Bachhuber, Ch., Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia (Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology 13), Equinox Publishing Ltd, Glasgow 2015.
Learning Objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding of the Transformation processes of cultures in the fourth and fifth Millennium.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding employing critical skills and current theories on interpreting the archaeological data.
3. Applying knowledge and understanding in facing specific Problems on social and economic tranformations in the analyzed period.
4. Making judgements employing correct Research methods
5. Making jugments Invesitgating equality and disequality in early Society through archaeological material.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding employing critical skills and current theories on interpreting the archaeological data.
3. Applying knowledge and understanding in facing specific Problems on social and economic tranformations in the analyzed period.
4. Making judgements employing correct Research methods
5. Making jugments Invesitgating equality and disequality in early Society through archaeological material.
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
lesson
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Type of Assessment
The exam consist of a General discussion on themes and features discussed during the course. It is required: 1..to present a specific theme Chosen by the candidate. 2. to recognize and contextualize an archaeological object or topographic plan. 3. to have critic skills to contextualize material culture
Course program
This year course will deal with the key concepts of equality and disequality in Society: in particular, regional economy and adaptive Systems in archaeology: Anatolia and the Levant between Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Main Topics are:
1. Egalitarian Society in Prehistory and the Golden Age Myth
2. Chiefdoms, centralization and social complexity in late chalcolithic
3. From ruralization to Secon Urban Revolution in northern Mesopotamia in the Early Bronze Age
4. Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age between high Plateau and western coast.
5. Centralisation and staple finance in the Levant
6. Metals, weapons, cemeteries: social and Settlement trnsformations at the end of the 3rd Millennium BC
7. Exchages and circulation of goods between Aegean, western Mediterranean and Levant in the Early Bronze Age
Main Topics are:
1. Egalitarian Society in Prehistory and the Golden Age Myth
2. Chiefdoms, centralization and social complexity in late chalcolithic
3. From ruralization to Secon Urban Revolution in northern Mesopotamia in the Early Bronze Age
4. Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age between high Plateau and western coast.
5. Centralisation and staple finance in the Levant
6. Metals, weapons, cemeteries: social and Settlement trnsformations at the end of the 3rd Millennium BC
7. Exchages and circulation of goods between Aegean, western Mediterranean and Levant in the Early Bronze Age