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3.00 Credits
N. Moeller. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Outside and before the Greco-Roman ecumene, how did ancient peoples understand their world This course introduces the major categories of knowledge created and employed in ancient Assyria and Babylonia. Our syllabus reflects the corpus of material that had to be mastered by junior scribes of the Neo-Sumerian and Neo-Assyrian periods. Topics include time and history, cosmologies and geographies, omens and cult, medicine and magic, myth and literature, law, mathematics, and accounting. Course work emphasizes reading (and writing on) primary sources. Texts in English. This course is offered in alternate years. S. Richardson. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar examines the wealth of historical issues and literatures attaching to the Assyrian campaign against Jerusalem in 701 BC. The siege-negotiations there-reflected in Neo-Assyrian and Biblical accounts, as well as archaeological investigations-affected the course of political events in Egypt, Babylonia, Syria, and Anatolia. Literary echoes can be found in later Greek, Aramaic, and medieval literatures, as well as in the cultural politics of Europe in nineteenth century AD. The event is enmeshed in historical problems related to ancient diplomacy, folk tradition, structures of empire, cult practice and politics, and prophetic literature, which are all amplified by their reproduction in literally dozens of languages. By using the episode at Jerusalem as a platform, this seminar also considers philosophical-historical questions about the importance of "the event" in historical discour se. This course is offered in alternate years. S. Richardson. Not offered 2 009-10; will be offered 2010
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3.00 Credits
G. Emberling. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
Taking these courses in sequence is not required. This sequence meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. Three great empires of the ancient world are introduced in this sequence. Each course focuses on a particular empire, with attention to the similarities and differences among the empires covered in this sequence. By exploring the rich legacy of documents and monuments that these empires produced, students are introduced to ways of understanding imperialism and its cultural and societal effects-both on the imperial elites and on those they conquered. Extensive use is made of visual materials, including artifacts on display in the Oriental Institute Museum. Autumn, Winter, Spring.
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3.00 Credits
Not open to students who have completed NEAA 20006/30006. (= CLCV 25800) N. Moeller. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
C. Ando. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the background and development of the first urbanized civilizations in the Near East in the period from 9000 to 2200 BC. In the first half of this course, we examine the archaeological evidence for the first domestication of plants and animals and the earliest village communities in the "fertile crescent" (i.e., the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia). The second half of this course focuses on the economic and social transformations that took place during the development from simple, village-based communities to the emergence of the urbanized civilizations of the Sumerians and their neighbors in the fourth and third millennia BC . G. Stein. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Introductory course in archaeology. This course introduces the use of animal bones in archaeological research. Students gain hands-on experience analyzing faunal remains from an archaeological site in the Near East. Topics include: (1) identifying, aging, and sexing animal bones; (2) zooarchaeological sampling, measurement, quantification, and problems of taphonomy; (3) computer analysis of animal bone data; and (4) reconstructing prehistoric hunting and pastoral economies (e.g., animal domestication, hunting strategies, herding systems, seasonality, pastoral production in complex societies). G. Stein. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the main issues in archaeological method and theory with emphasis on the principles and practice of Near Eastern archaeology. Topics include: (1) the history of archaeology, (2) trends in social theory and corresponding modes of archaeological interpretation, (3) the nature of archaeological evidence and issues of research design, (4) survey and excavation methods and associated recording techniques, (5) the analysis and interpretation of various kinds of excavated materials, and (6) the presentation and publication of archaeological results. This course is offered in alternate years. Not offered 2009 C10; will be offered 201 0 -11.
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