ID:
510127
Durata (ore):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA DELL'ARTE DEL VICINO ORIENTE ANTICO
Anno:
2024
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Primo Semestre (23/09/2024 - 17/12/2024)
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
Aim of the course is to introduce the students to the archaeology of western Asia, and to the critical discussion of the analysis of the archaeological evidence. The ultimate goal is to let them become aware of an early cultural tradition and become able to integrate this tradition in the wider discourse on memory and identities of the ancient Mediterranean and their ties to the modern world.
Prerequisiti
None
Metodi didattici
Part 1: frontal lesson with audio and video support
Part 2: seminar with in-class presentation of teachers and students and discussion of assigned readings
Part 2: seminar with in-class presentation of teachers and students and discussion of assigned readings
Verifica Apprendimento
The final exam will represent for all students the benchmark for defining their grade. The instructor will share with students a ppt, whose slides will represent the visual starting point to articulate a conversation on themes and monuments of AWA archaeology. The slides will be commented by the instructor during the part of the course open to all students, and they are directly linked to the chapters of the handbook of R. Matthews (see above). The evaluation of this part will cover the 60% of the final grade (18pt/30), and will be the same for all students.
Students not participating in the seminar will also be asked to prepare for the exam selected chapters from two more regional handbooks on the archaeology of Anatolia and Syria (see above), and a 5 min. presentation of one of these chapters, corresponding to the remaining 40% of their final grade (12p/30).
Students who will participate in the seminar will not be asked to prepare the two handbooks for the final exam, instead they will be evaluated based on their attendance and active participation in the discussion of the readings in class (ca. 20%: 6/30pt), as well as a critical presentation of a topic or a set of readings in class (ca 20%; 6/30pt).
Students not participating in the seminar will also be asked to prepare for the exam selected chapters from two more regional handbooks on the archaeology of Anatolia and Syria (see above), and a 5 min. presentation of one of these chapters, corresponding to the remaining 40% of their final grade (12p/30).
Students who will participate in the seminar will not be asked to prepare the two handbooks for the final exam, instead they will be evaluated based on their attendance and active participation in the discussion of the readings in class (ca. 20%: 6/30pt), as well as a critical presentation of a topic or a set of readings in class (ca 20%; 6/30pt).
Testi
All students taking the course will be required to read and prepare for the final oral exam the following handbook:
R. Matthews, Archaeology of Mesopotamia, London 2003.
Students who will not participate in the seminar (Part 2), will be required to prepare for the final exam also the followings:
Sagona, P. Zimansky, Ancient Turkey, London 2009, chapters 7-10 ;
P. Akkermans and G. Schwartz, Archaeology of Syria, Cambridge 2003, chapters 10-12. A presentation of one of the assigned chapters, with a ppt, at the exam is also expected .
R. Matthews, Archaeology of Mesopotamia, London 2003.
Students who will not participate in the seminar (Part 2), will be required to prepare for the final exam also the followings:
Sagona, P. Zimansky, Ancient Turkey, London 2009, chapters 7-10 ;
P. Akkermans and G. Schwartz, Archaeology of Syria, Cambridge 2003, chapters 10-12. A presentation of one of the assigned chapters, with a ppt, at the exam is also expected .
Contenuti
The course consists of two parts.
Part 1 is mandatory and open for all students taking the course without prerequisites. It will offer a survey through frontal lesson with ppt of the main archaeological evidence (architecture, art and material culture) supporting the major experiences of socio-political complexity characterizing south-west Asia from the Neolthic to the empires of the 1st millennium BCE one introductive of the main classes of evidence, periods, and civilizations of ancient western Asia. This part will start on the week of October 14, and will continue with two meetings a week until the December holidays.
Part 2 is an advanced seminar of an integrated teaching program for graduate students between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - New York University and UNIPV, and it is open to selected students taking this course . This year's seminar will be:
WEALTH, INEQUALITY, AND DIVERSITY: POLITICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF UGARIT
Ugarit, modern site of Ras Shamra in coastal Syria, was for the entire Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BCE) the most important harbor and emporium of the entire Mediterranean.
Excavations run by French archaeologists from 1929, and by a Syrian-French mission for the last 20 years, have brought to light written and archaeological evidence of the wealth and fine arts and literature of this center. Its strong local identity, underscored by the creation of a cuneiform alphabetic writing for the local idiom, blossomed in a strongly multi-cultural context supported by a long-distance network and the in-house residency of trade agents and high officials from the four corners of southwest Asia and the Mediterranean. This wealthy, sophisticated urban center was the capital of a geographically small and politically minor kingdom, controlling a territory of ca 1500 Km2. The hinterland agriculture was rich, with high productivity of the chief Mediterranean products such as grapes, olives and bread wheat. Leaving conditions outside the urban center and its main harbors are unknown, but textual sources have been studied to set up models of social inequality and revolts that have been very influential in understanding complex societies in the preclassical Mediterranean.
After introducing basic theoretical works on the investigation of wealth, inequality, and diversity in the study of the ancient world, the course aims at introducing the site and moving from the literature exploring these themes from the analysis of the written sources, to associated them with the unique archaeological evidence from this unique LBA site.
The seminar is not mandatory. No more than 10 students will be admitted to the seminar. Prerequisite to be admitted is to have attended in your BA a course of ancient western Asia archaeology or history, or being registered for the pre-course of Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Students planning a MA thesis on ancient western Asia will be given priority and are in any case strongly suggested to take the seminar and engage with research approaches to AWA archaeology, the remaining spots will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.
IMPORTANT: Classes will start on Wednesday 4, 3pm, and will keep going weekly up until December 11.
Part 1 is mandatory and open for all students taking the course without prerequisites. It will offer a survey through frontal lesson with ppt of the main archaeological evidence (architecture, art and material culture) supporting the major experiences of socio-political complexity characterizing south-west Asia from the Neolthic to the empires of the 1st millennium BCE one introductive of the main classes of evidence, periods, and civilizations of ancient western Asia. This part will start on the week of October 14, and will continue with two meetings a week until the December holidays.
Part 2 is an advanced seminar of an integrated teaching program for graduate students between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - New York University and UNIPV, and it is open to selected students taking this course . This year's seminar will be:
WEALTH, INEQUALITY, AND DIVERSITY: POLITICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF UGARIT
Ugarit, modern site of Ras Shamra in coastal Syria, was for the entire Late Bronze Age (1500-1200 BCE) the most important harbor and emporium of the entire Mediterranean.
Excavations run by French archaeologists from 1929, and by a Syrian-French mission for the last 20 years, have brought to light written and archaeological evidence of the wealth and fine arts and literature of this center. Its strong local identity, underscored by the creation of a cuneiform alphabetic writing for the local idiom, blossomed in a strongly multi-cultural context supported by a long-distance network and the in-house residency of trade agents and high officials from the four corners of southwest Asia and the Mediterranean. This wealthy, sophisticated urban center was the capital of a geographically small and politically minor kingdom, controlling a territory of ca 1500 Km2. The hinterland agriculture was rich, with high productivity of the chief Mediterranean products such as grapes, olives and bread wheat. Leaving conditions outside the urban center and its main harbors are unknown, but textual sources have been studied to set up models of social inequality and revolts that have been very influential in understanding complex societies in the preclassical Mediterranean.
After introducing basic theoretical works on the investigation of wealth, inequality, and diversity in the study of the ancient world, the course aims at introducing the site and moving from the literature exploring these themes from the analysis of the written sources, to associated them with the unique archaeological evidence from this unique LBA site.
The seminar is not mandatory. No more than 10 students will be admitted to the seminar. Prerequisite to be admitted is to have attended in your BA a course of ancient western Asia archaeology or history, or being registered for the pre-course of Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology. Students planning a MA thesis on ancient western Asia will be given priority and are in any case strongly suggested to take the seminar and engage with research approaches to AWA archaeology, the remaining spots will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis.
IMPORTANT: Classes will start on Wednesday 4, 3pm, and will keep going weekly up until December 11.
Lingua Insegnamento
INGLESE
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ANTICHITÀ CLASSICHE E ORIENTALI
Laurea Magistrale
2 anni
THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD. HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART
Laurea Magistrale
2 anni
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