Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	No class!
2	Pleistocene-Holocene transition: natural resources, environmental change and its impacts
3	a) Cave Sites and Cultures in Anatolia New environment and new society n the Near East (Düring; Sagona and Zimansky), b) From caves and camps to villages
4	Neolithic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia: The “Revolution” of the Neolithic (Düring; Sagona and Zimansky),
5	How early is it? The foundations of social inequality
6	a) Chalcolithic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia (Frangipane, Düring; Sagona and Zimansky), b) The change in the production systems: Political economy and power (Earle, Düring; Sagona and Zimansky),
7	Early Bronze Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia
8	Middle and Late Bronze Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia
9	Midterm
10	Human-environment interactions, anthropogenic impacts
11	Spring Break
12	The Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day Official Holiday
13	a) Iron Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia (Düring; Sagona and Zimansky), b) Anatolia and the Persian Empire (reading to be announced),
14	The Hellenistic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia
15	Anatolia during the Roman Republic and Empire