B010009 - AEGEAN CIVILISATIONS

Teaching and discussion in Italian. Many of the readings in English.

The course includes two sections, general and monographic. General part: history and geography of the Bronze Age Aegean. Monographic part: interconnections between the Aegean and the other areas of the Mediterranean.

A. Mandatory
1. L. Bombardieri, G. Graziadio, A.M. Jasink, Preistoria e protostoria egea e cipriota, FUP 2015 (Available in the Library) (without the section on Cyprus)
2.The PPT Presentations on Moodle
3. M.E. Alberti, “Aegean trade and weighing systems from EBA to EIA: how changing circuits influenced changing ‘glocal’ measures”, in B. Molloy (a cura di), Of Odysseys and Oddities: Scales and modes of interaction between prehistoric Aegean societies and their neighbours (Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 10), Oxford e Phildelphia, pp. 227-322 (without the part on weighing systems)

B - Various articles will be discussed during classes and students are supposed to understand and acquire their main contents.

C – Suggested for the Aegean – Mediterranean interactions (available in the library):
1. Laffineur, Robert, e Emanuele Greco 2005 (a cura di), Emporia: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 10th International Aegean Conference/10e Rencontre égéenne internationale, Athens, Italian School of Archaeology, 14-18 April 2004, Aegaeum 25, Liège and Austin, Université de Liège, Histoire de l’art et archéologie de la Grèce antique and University of Texas at Austin, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory.
2. Babbi, Andrea, Friederike Bubenheimer-Erhart, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, and Simone Mühl 2015 (eds), The Mediterranean Mirror: Cultural Contacts in the Mediterranean Sea between 1200 and 750 B.C. International Post-doc and Young Researcher Conference, Heidelberg, 6th-8th October 2012, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Tagungen 20, Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germansichen Zentralmuseums.

D - Suggested as a guide to most important sites:
Cline, E. 2101 (ed.), Cline, Eric H., ed. 2010. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press (available in the library)

Acquiring knowledge and applying it through critical discussion; improving autonomous and team learning capacity and communication skills.

No prerequisite. It is suggested to attend the courses of Prehistory and Protohistory, History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Greek History and Greek Archaeology.

The course includes lectures, seminars and practical training. Students are supposed to participate actively in the discussion and to report orally on the readings. In class activity helps the students to focus on the most important aspects of the course and is part of the final grading.

Individual programs and readings are possible, in agreement with the professor

To acquire the 6 CFU, students have to take part in the in class activities and to study the suggested texts (see above). In class activity counts for the 30% of the final grading, the general preparation for the 70%. The exam is oral and aims to verify the comprehension and knowledge of the relevant subjects (general and monographic) and the ability of critical elaboration of diverse contents and information.

The course includes two sections, general and monographic.
General part: history and geography of the Bronze Age Aegean. Includes: chronology and geography, ressources distribution and trade networks. Each phase is briefly presented through the main sites and the material and administrative culture of the various regions. The general historical trajectory of the Aegean is illustrated.
Monographic part: interconnections between the Aegean and the other areas of the Mediterranean. Through discussion seminars on specialised literature, the interaction between the Aegean and neighbouring areas is illustrated according to its main characteristics and to the chronological and geographical differences. In particular, the potentially relevant areas are: coastal Anatolia, Cyprus, Levant, Egypt, Southern and Northern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia. The extension of the panorama depends on the students’ number.