Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Enrollment continues
2	Welcome, syllabus, understanding readings and the concept of your reflective essay Future of academia in the pandemic. What are you all going into?
3	Archaeology in Turkey and the new Geoanthropology program What is science in anthropology and archaeology?
4	What is archaeological science? Shifting into ‘science’ in archaeology.
5	Absolute Dating methods Case studies from Near Eastern chrolonological debates
6	Mobility and Climate Studies: basics of isotopes (Sr and O) & case studies
7	Mobility and Climate Studies: case studies continue Case studies: collapse and climate
8	Modeling in paleo-climate research (guest lecturer B. Arıkan)
9	Midterm
10	Isotope studies in ancient diet (C, N, and H isotopes)
11	Spring break
12	Organic residue analysis
13	Paleoethnobotany
14	Material Science: Analytical approaches on ceramics, metals, glass, and pigments Basic analysis and goal of isotopes (Pb, Sn, Sr, Nd)
15	Complexity in archaeology / Wrapping up the semester