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3370/HONR 3304 Prof.
Karl Petruso |
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3370/HONR 3304 Prof.
Karl Petruso |
SYLLABUS (subject to change)
Key
to abbreviations below:
F = Fitton, Minoans
T = Taylour, The Mycenaeans
RP = Readings Packet
Online readings are shown as underlined links
DATE |
LECTURE TOPIC; READING ASSIGNMENT |
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W Jan 21 |
Introduction
to the course. Policies, requirements, resources. Scope of Aegean prehistory. Why
study Aegean archaeology? Assignment: read all four pages on this website |
M Jan 26 |
What is archaeology? Methods and techniques. How do we think we know what we think we know about the prehistoric past? |
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W Jan 28 |
Class canceled |
M Feb 2 |
A brief history of Aegean archaeology. Schliemann and Evans. Palaces, tombs and tablets. |
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W Feb 4 |
Geography, environment and natural resources of the Aegean. Chronology and chronography: terms and conventions (handouts) Assignment: RP #1; Wikipedia entry on Geography of Greece |
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M Feb 9 |
Paleolithic and Mesolithic Greece: Epiros. Environment and industries. Obsidian. Evidence for sailing |
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W Feb 11 |
Neolithic Greece I: Origins of agriculture. Southern Greece: Franchthi Cave Assignment: RP #4 |
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M Feb 16 |
Neolithic Greece II: Early village farming in Macedonia and Thesssaly. Settlements. Review of the Neolithic |
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W Feb 18 |
EXAM no. 1, covering all readings and lectures Jan. 21 through Feb. 16 |
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M Feb 23 |
Colonization of the Aegean Islands in the Neolithic. The Early Cycladic period and the coming of metallurgy. Frying pans, tweezers and marble idols. Longboats and their significance Assignment: RP #3; Broodbank article on the Cycladic longboat |
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W Feb 25 |
The Early Bronze Age in mainland Greece. Lerna in the Argolid. Dramatic changes in the material culture Assignment: Rutter course: Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II |
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M Mar 2 |
Crete: introduction. First human settlement. Neolithic Knossos. Prepalatial Crete, settlement and architecture. Myrtos, Vasiliki, Chamaizi. Mesara tholoi and theories of social organization |
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W Mar 4 |
The first Minoan palaces: evidence from Knossos and Phaistos Assignment: F 66-108 |
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M Mar 9 |
Neopalatial Crete II : Villas and towns. Daily life outside the palaces Assignment: F 135-146 |
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W Mar 11 |
Minoan language and scripts. Cretan hieroglyphics and Linear A: problems of decipherment. The venerable Phaistos Disc Assignment: F 161-163; handouts |
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M Mar 16 |
SPRING BREAK |
| W Mar 18 |
SPRING BREAK |
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M Mar 23 |
Cretan pottery: conspectus. Minoan economy. The mechanics of trade Assignment: F 159-161; metrology handouts |
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W Mar 25 |
A survey of Minoan major arts, minor arts and industries: fresco, metalworking, glyptic Assignment: F 146-161 |
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M Mar 30 |
Minoan religion. Cave sanctuaries, peak sanctuaries, tripartite shrines. Bulls and "bull sports" Assignment: F 172-205 |
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W Apr 1 |
Akrotiri. The Thera eruption and its consequences. The curious legend of Atlantis Assignment: Rutter course: Akrotiri on Thera LAST DAY TO DROP: FRIDAY, APRIL 3 |
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M Apr 6 |
EXAM no. 2, covering all readings and lectures Feb. 23 through Apr. 1 |
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W Apr 8 |
Return to mainland Greece: the Middle Helladic Period. The Shaft Graves: Discovery, contents, interpretation, significance. Problems Assignment: T 19-30; Rutter course: The Shaft Graves |
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M Apr 13 |
Linear B: Introduction. Decipherment. The nature and function of the script. Accounting. The macroeconomy Assignment: T 31-42; RP #7; handouts |
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W Apr 15 |
Linear B, continued: Evidence for Mycenaean religion and the structure of Mycenaean society. Daily life in Mycenaean Greece Assignment: T 43-64; handouts |
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M Apr 20 |
Death and burial in Mycenaean Greece |
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W Apr 22 |
Mycenaean citadel architecture and settlements Assignment: T 85-112 RESEARCH PAPERS DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 24 IN UNIVERSITY HALL 430 |
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M Apr 27 |
Mycenaean major and minor arts: fresco, pottery, metalworking T 113-134 |
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W Apr 29 |
The Mycenaeans in Crete and further afield. Late Bronze Age internationalism. Warfare. Bronze Age shipwrecks off southern Anatolia |
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M May 4 |
Troy and Trojan archaeology, 1871-present. The Trojan War in legend Assignment: RP #8; Korfmann article on historicity of the Trojan War |
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W May 6 |
Collapse of the Mycenaean world and its aftermath. Homer and the tradition of a Heroic Age |
M May 11 |
FINAL EXAM, 2:00-4:30 pm (non-cumulative), covering all readings and lectures April 8 through May 6 |