Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction
2	Pleistocene-Holocene transition: natural resources, environmental change and its impacts
3	a) Cave Sites and Cultures in Anatolia. New environment and new society in 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 (Price-Feinman, Tainter) * Research paper topics decided!
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 (Düring; Sagona)
8	ITU Fall Break
9	Middle and Late Bronze Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia (Düring; Sagona and Zimansky)
10	Midterm (20%) * Draft of research papers due!
11	Human-environment interactions, anthropogenic impacts (reading to be announced)
12	a) Iron Age sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia (Düring; Sagona and Zimansky), b) Anatolia and the Persian Empire (reading to be announced),
13	The Hellenistic sites, cultures, and interactions in Anatolia (Akurgal)
14	Anatolia during the Roman Republic (Akurgal),
15	Anatolia during the Roman Empire (Akurgal),
16	Final Exam (30%) - The final exam is comprehensive!
17	The finals will be held between January 2 – 14: the date and the place of the final exam for this course will be announced later in the semester.

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