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ANTH 4015

Archaeology of the Mediterranean

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2023

Topics

  • Other readings
  • 2 Some geography and initial thoughts on time and space
  • Broodbank
  • 3 Pleistocene prelude, 1.8-0.05 mya
  • 4 Ice Ages, 50,000-10,000 BCE
  • 5 Ice Ages, 50,000-10,000 BCE, continued
  • 6 10,000-5500 BCE – Early Holocene Hunters, Gatherers and Farmers
  • paragraph idea for paper
  • 7 Early Holocene Hunters, Gatherers and Farmers, continued
  • 8 5500-3500 BCE – Farming’s florescence
  • 9 5500-3500 BCE, continued
  • 10 3500-2200 BCE – Complexity and complications
  • ANTH 4015 FAO Archaeology of the Mediterranean 2023 Page
  • 11 3rd MBCE, continued
  • Bronze Age
  • 13 2200-1300 BCE – East and West, continued
  • 14 1300-800 BCE – Latitudinal linkage
  • Adriatic Islands Project - a longitudinal study of Adriatic interactions

Readings

  • Required: Cyprian Broodbank (2013) The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World. London: Thames & Hudson.
  • B. Cunliffe (2008) Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000, Ch 10
  • Recommended: S. Price and P. Thonemann (2010) The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
  • Whitley, J. (2001) The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
  • B. Cunliffe (2008) Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000, Ch 11
  • Recommended: M. Beard (2015) SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome R. Laurence (2012) Roman Archaeology for Historians
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