Bronze Age Civilizations of Anatolia

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

YOK

Course Contents

In this course Western Anatolia-Marmara region, Cilicia , Southeastern Anatolia and eastern Anatolia in the 2nd Millennium BC as well as the late bronze age ship wreckes, the cultural interactions and trade relations in these regions with each other and with Egypt, Cyprus will be analyzed.

Weekly Schedule

1) The geographical and chronological attitude of the neighbouring cultures with Assyrian Trade Colonies, the Early Hittite Kingdom and the Hittite Empire, their stratigraphical positions and main properties.
2) Description of Eastern Anatolian and South Caucasian Middle Bronze Age Cultures with Anatolia and Northern Mesopotamia.
3) Defining Middle Bronze Age Aegean cultures and determining their cultural and trade relations with the Assyrian Trade Colonies.
4) The land and coast trade routes used by the Assyrian trade system, the raw and industrial material brought to Mesopotamia and Anatolia by these routes, and their relations to the Karum system in Anatolia.
5) Cultural interactions and culture transfer of the Middle Bronze Age Cultures within Anatolia, according to archaeological material
6) Cultural and Trade interactions of the Assyrian Trade Colonies with Eastern Anatolia, Caucasia and beyond.
7) Cultural and Trade interactions of the Assyrian Trade Colonies with Western Anatolia, Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Interactions of the Hittite Empire according to historical sıurces and the archaeological proofs.
10) Description of the archaeological material prooving the political and trade relations between the Hittite Empire and the Aegean Cultures
11) Description of the archaeological material prooving the political and trade relations between the Hittite Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean Cultures
12) Description of the cargoo of the Shipwreck of Uluburun
13) Description of the cargoo of the Shipwreck of Uluburun
14) Reconstruction of the Eastern Mediterranean-Hittite-Mycenian trade routes according to the cargoo of the Shipwreck of Uluburun
15) Revision
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- S. Lloyd and J. Mellaart, Beycesultan I: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Levels (London l962).
2- J. Garstang Prehistoric Mersin Oxford 1953
3- C.W. Blegen et al., Troy I: The First and Second Settlements (Princeton 1950).
4- C.W. Blegen et al., Troy II: The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Settlements (Princeton 1951).
5- C.W. Blegen et al., Troy III: Sixth Settlement (Princeton 1951).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required