Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Yerleşim Sistemleri
	English	Settlement Patterns
Course Code	ANT 511E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	1	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Bülent Arıkan
Course Objectives		1. To teach students about the transition into sedentary life, 2. To teach about the development of resource use in sedentary systems, 3. To illustrate the relationships among groups in sedentary life, 4. To teach about the relationship between settlement systems and human-environment relationships.
Course Description		This course focuses on; Mesopotamia and Settlement Pattern Theories, Geography, Topography, The Elements of Settlement Patterns, The Settlement Patterns of 5th Millennium BC, The Settlement Patterns of 4th Millennium BC, Oikos Economy, 3rd Millennium BC Settlement Patterns, The Birth of Bureaucracy, Ideology and Images of Power, Burial Techniques, Political Economy, Technology and Settlement Pattern Analyses.
Course Outcomes		M.Sc. students who take this course gain knowledge, skills and proficiency in the following subjects 1. The transition into sedentary system, 2. Topography and geography, 3. Intra- and inter-regional contacts, 4. Intensive resource use, 5. The impact of settlement systems on human-environment interactions.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities		None
Other
Textbook		Pollock, S., 1999. Ancient Mesopotamia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Other References		Van De Mieroop, M. 2006. A History of the Ancient Near East: Ca. 3000-323 BC. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Issar, A. S. and Zohar, M. 2007. Climate change: environment and history of the Near East. Berlin: Springer.

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