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ANTH
3370/HONR 4303 Prof.
Karl Petruso |
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ANTH
3370/HONR 4303 Prof.
Karl Petruso |
SYLLABUS (subject to change)
Key
to abbreviations:
F = Fitton, Minoans
T = Taylour, The Mycenaeans
RP = Readings Packet
Online readings are shown as links
DATE |
LECTURE TOPIC; READING ASSIGNMENT |
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T
Jan 17 |
Introduction
to the course. Policies and requirements. Scope of Aegean prehistory. Why
study Aegean archaeology? Assignment: none, but peruse all pages on this website and RP #1 this week |
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Th
Jan 19 |
A history
of Aegean archaeology. Schliemann and Evans. Palaces, tombs and tablets.
A "Coming of the Greeks"? RP #2 |
T
Jan 24 |
Geography, environment and natural resources of the Aegean. Chronology
and chronography: terms and conventions |
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Th
Jan 26 |
Paleolithic
and Mesolithic Greece: Epiros. Environment and industries. Obsidian. Sailing and fishing RP #3 and #6 |
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T
Jan 31 |
Neolithic Greece I: Southern Greece. Franchthi Cave. |
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Th
Feb 2 |
Neolithic Greece II: Early village farming in Macedonia and Thesssaly RP #4 |
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T
Feb 7 |
Neolithic
Greece III: The islands. Corfu, Saliagos and Keos Rutter course: The Neolithic Sequence in the Cycladic Islands |
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Th
Feb 9 |
The
Early Bronze Age in the Cycladic Islands: boats and colonization. Architecture,
art and burials RP #7 and #8 |
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T
Feb 14 |
Early
Bronze Age I-II mainland Greece: survey. Eutresis, Lerna and Tiryns Rutter course: Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II |
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Th
Feb 16 |
EXAM no. 1, covering all readings and lectures Jan. 17 through Feb. 14 |
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T
Feb 21 |
Crete: introduction. First human settlement. Neolithic Knossos: architecture and industries. Eastern Crete in the later Neolithic. RP #9 and #10; F 9-36 |
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Th
Feb 23 |
Prepalatial Crete. Settlement and architecture. Myrtos, Vasiliki, Chamaizi. Mesara tholoi and theories of social organization F 37-65 |
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T
Feb 28 |
The first Minoan palaces: evidence from Knossos and Phaistos F 66-108 |
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Th
Mar 2 |
Neopalatial Crete I. Mallia and Kato Zakros. Palace structure and function. F 109-135; RP #11 |
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T
Mar 7 |
Neopalatial Crete II : Villas and towns. Daily life outside the palaces F 135-146 |
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Th
Mar 9 |
Minoan language and scripts. Cretan hieroglyphics and Linear A: problems of decipherment. The Phaistos Disc. F 161-163; RP #12 PAPER TOPICS DUE IN WRITING |
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T
Mar 14 |
SPRING BREAK |
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Th
Mar 16 |
SPRING BREAK |
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T
Mar 21 |
Cretan pottery: survey. Minoan economy. The mechanics of trade. F 159-161; metrology handouts |
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Th
Mar 23 |
A survey of Minoan major arts, minor arts and industries: fresco, metalworking, glyptic F 146-161 |
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T
Mar 28 |
Minoan religion. Cave sanctuaries, peak sanctuaries, tripartite shrines. The "bull sports." The end of Minoan civilization F 172-205 |
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Th
Mar 30 |
Akrotiri. The Thera eruption and its consequences. The curious legend of Atlantis Rutter course: Akrotiri on Thera |
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T
Apr 4 |
EXAM no. 2, covering all readings and lectures Feb. 21 through Mar. 30 |
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Th
Apr 6 |
Middle Helladic Greece: conspectus. Shaft Graves: Contents, interpretation, significance. Problems T 19-30; Rutter course: The Shaft Graves |
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T
Apr 11 |
Linear B: Introduction. Decipherment. The nature and function of the script. Accounting T 31-42; RP #13 and #15 |
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Th
Apr 13 |
Sources for Mycenaean religion. Daily life in Mycenaean Greece T 43-64; RP #16 |
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T
Apr 18 |
Mycenaean citadel architecture and settlement. Death and burial in Mycenaean Greece |
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Th
Apr 20 |
Mycenaean major and minor arts: frescoes, pottery, metalworking T 113-131 RESEARCH PAPERS DUE |
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T
Apr 25 |
HONR 4303 presentation: The structure of Mycenaean society. |
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Th
Apr 27 |
Greece in the wider world. The Mycenaeans in Crete and further afield. Late Bronze Age internationalism. Shipwrecks off southern Anatolia Institute of Nautical Archaeology (Texas A&M University) website on Gelidonya and Uluburun. T 135-154 |
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T
May 2 |
Troy and its archaeology. The Trojan War in legend RP #17 |
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Th
May 4 |
Collapse of the Mycenaean world and its aftermath. Homer and the oral tradition T 155-163; RP #18 |
Th May 11 8:00 am |
FINAL EXAM, covering all readings and lectures April 11 |