Dersin Haftalık Planı

Hafta	Konu
1	Human Evolution: Biological and Cultural
2	a) Paleolithic-Neolithic transition: New environment and new society in temperate Europe and in the Near East. (Mithen, DR Harris, Gebauer, Özdoğan ve Başgelen; Düring), b) From caves and camps to villages: The “Revolution” of the Neolithic (Redman, Ammerman, Anderson, Özdoğan ve Başgelen; Düring),
3	Why are you acting up? Behavioral changes with the transition to agriculture
4	How early is it? The foundations of social inequality (Price-Feinman, Tainter) * Students are expected to announce their research paper topics,
5	The First Midterm
6	What are you doing? The change in the production systems (Costin in Feinman-Price, Flannery-Marcus, Monahan in Thurston-Fisher),
7	Cumhuriyet Bayramı - Resmi tatil
8	The Fall Break
9	Do They Go Together? Political Economy and Power (Earle, Frangipane)
10	Is it sustainable? Perspectives from historical ecology (Hornborg and Crumley),
11	The Second Midterm (15%) * Students are expected to submit a draft of their research papers
12	The “Archaic” states (Feinman-Marcus, Yoffee)
13	Sumerian¬-Babylonian-Akkadian civilizations (reading to be announced)
14	The Hittites (reading to be announced)
15	The Roman Empire (reading to be announced)
16	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.