Process of Production, Economy and State Formation

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Not Required

Course Contents

The reflections of these processes vary parallel to the form and level of social organization, and in this context each community needs to be examined in its own way. Topics such as the structure of different societies in different periods, the process of economy and state, the study of internal and external dynamics that create this process, the level of societal complication and the relation of development processes will be analyzed through archaeological examples. This course aims criticism and theoretical projecting.

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Algaze, G. (1993). The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
2- Moret, A. ve G. Davy 1970, From Tribe to Empire. Social Organization Among Primitives in the Ancient Near East. New York.
3- Postgate, J. N. 1992. Early Mesopotamia. Society and Economy at the Dawn of History. London, New York.
4- Klengel, H. ve J. Renger (eds.) 1999, Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient, Berliner Beitrage zum Vorderen Orient 18), Berlin: Reimer.
5- Diakonoff, I.M. (ed.) 1969, Ancient Mesopotamia: Social and Economic History, Moscow.
6- Lipinski, E. (ed.) 1979, State and Temple Economy in the Ancient Near East (OLA 6), Leuven.
7- Harmatta, J., Komoróczy, G. (eds.) 1976, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im Alten Vorderasien, Budapest.
8- Hudson, M. ve Levine, B.A. (eds.) 1999, Urbanization and Land Ownership in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge.
9- Jas, R.M. (ed.) 2000, Rainfall and Agriculture in Northern Mesopotamia (= NHAI MOS Studies 3), İstanbul, Leiden.
10- Wattenmaker, P., 1998, Household and State in Upper Mesopotamia. Specialized Economy and the Social Uses of Goods in an Early Complex Society, Washington and London.
11- Yakar, J., 2000, Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia. Rural Socio-Economy in the Bronze and Iron Ages, Jerusalem.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Case Study
5) Self Study
6) Project Based Learning

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required