Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Çevre ve Merkez Bağlam.Anadolu
	English	Anatolia as Core & Periphery
Course Code	STR 603	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	-	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Bülent Arıkan
Course Objectives		1. 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		Düring, Bleda. 2011. The Prehistory of Asia Minor. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Sagona, Antonio, Paul Zimansky. 2009. Ancient Turkey. Routledge World Archaeology, London. (ISBN: 9780415481236)
Other References		Akurgal, Ekrem. 2014. Anadolu Kültür Tarihi. Phoenix Yayınevi. (ISBN: 6054657917) Düring, Bleda. 2016. Küçük Asya’nın Tarihöncesi: Karmaşık Avcı-Toplayıcılardan Erken Kentsel Toplumlara. Koç Üniversitesi Yayınları, İstanbul. (ISBN: 6059389037) Nissen, Hans J. 2004. Ana Hatlarıyla Mezopotamya. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul. (ISBN: 9756561335) Özdoğan, Mehmet, Nezih Başgelen. 2011. Türkiye’de Neolitik Dönem. Anadolu’da Uygarlığın Doğuşu ve Avrupa’ya Yayılımı. Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul. (ISBN: 9944750226)

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