Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Anadolu Arkeolojisi
	English	Anatolian Archaeology
Course Code	ITB 221E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Bülent Arıkan
Course Objectives		Teaching the development of civilizations in Anatolia, 2. Giving the opportunity to ask questions about both the culture history and the modern cultural policies, 3. Teaching the details of cultural evolution and culture history, 4. Teaching the relationship between Anaotlian and Eastern Mediterranean cultures, 5. Preserving and narrating the archaeological heritage, 6. Using the cultural heritage in the social and economic development, 7. Having a better understanding of cultural policies.
Course Description		This course covers such topics as Pleistocene-Holocene transition: natural resources, environmental change and its impacts, Cave sites and cultures in Anatolia, Neolithic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, The foundations of social inequality, Chalcolithic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, The change in the production systems: Political economy and power, Early Bronze Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, Middle and Late Bronze Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, Human-environment interactions, anthropogenic impacts, Iron Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, Anatolia and the Persian Empire, Hellenistic Sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia, Anatolia during the Roman Republic and Anatolia during the Roman Empire.
Course Outcomes		Following a brief introduction to archaeology, the lectures aim to: 1) learning the general characteristics of each archaeological period in Anatolia and understanding the regional variations ın terms of cultural development within Anatolia, 2) understanding social, technological, economic, and political developments with the help of case studies as well as understanding how the early complex societies emerged, 3) understanding the inter-regional interactions of Anatolia with the Mesopotamia, the Aegean, the Levant, Cyprus, and Egypt, 4) assessing the socio-cultural evolution of various early complex societies in the context of topics covered in lectures, 5) understanding the complex and dynamic human-environment relationships as well as their consequences.
Pre-requisite(s)		None
Required Facilities
Other
Textbook		During, Bleda. 2011. The Prehistory of Asia Minor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Other References		1- Akurgal, Ekrem. 1989. Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey. 2- Steadman, S. ve G. McMahon, 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 3- Yoffee, Norman. 2005. Myths of Archaic State Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 4- Düring, Bleda. 2011. The Prehistory of Asia Minor, From Complex Hunter- Gatherers to Early Urban Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5- Nissen, Hans J. 2004. The Early History of the Ancient Near East. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul. 6- Özdoğan, Mehmet, Nezih Başgelen. 2011. Neolithic in Turkey. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul.

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