2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

L-OR/04 (ANATOLIAN STUDIES)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES

STORICO-ORIENTALISTICO

1°

2nd semester (22/02/2016 - 28/05/2016)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN (teaching in English is anytime possible, depending on the provenience and language competence of the participants)

ORAL TEST

D'ALFONSO LORENZO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Archaeology and art history of Anatolia from Prehistory to the Hellenization

Introduction to the study of geo-physical and environmental characteristics of Anatolia and the climatic and environmental changes that occurred during the Pleistocene and Holocene.

The Neolithic revolution (domestication of plants and animals, sedentarism, creation of symbols of social life) in Anatolia and its significance for the entire Eurasian area.

The formation of the first political entities and administrative systems in the Chalcolithic period.

Architecture, material culture and artistic production of the principalities from the Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age, up to the development of the Hittite empire.

Crisis, migration, change and continuity 'in the various areas of Anatolia after the fall of the Hittite Empire and the development of the Neo-Hittite regional kingdoms, the kingdom of Phrygia and the kingdom of Urartu.

General reflection on the movement of goods in both pre-classical age in Anatolia both long-distance and impact on economic organization and cultural

1. Lecture: Geographical, geological and climatic features of Anatolia; climate and environmental change in the Pleistocene and nel'Olocene (2 hours)

2. Lecture: the Neolithic revolution in Anatolia, the Pre-pottery Neolithic and the mature Neolithic; archaeology of the earliest forms of breeding and cultivation, the lithic industry; the hypothesis of Renfrew after 40 years (2 hours)
Presentation: Catal Hoyuk (2 hours)

3. Lesson: Chalcolithic Anatolia from its origins to the formation of the first political entities with administrative systems; the birth and development of the dynamics between sedentary and nomadic groups (2 hours)
Presentation: Arslantepe (2 hours)

4. Lesson: the Bronze Age, metallurgy and social stratification; again the 'Indo-European question' in archaeology (2 hours)
Presentation: Troy II (2 hours)

5. Lesson: the Middle Bronze Age and the impact of Old-Assyrian trade in Anatolia; material culture, archaeological data and epigraphic data (2 hours)
Presentation: Kultepe-Kanes (2 0re)

6. Lesson: archaeology of the Hittite Empire I: C. Glatz and the theory on the archeology of the empire; ceramics, settlement patterns, administrative tools and monumental art (2 hours)
Presentation: Bogazkoy-Hattusa (2 hours)

7. Lesson: archaeology of the Hittite Empire II: architecture for public worship, defense, food storage and management of water in the center of the empire; architecture and material culture at the periphery of the empire, H. Genz and Venturi (2 hours)
Presentation: Kusakli-Sarissa (2 hours)

8. Lesson: Anatolia in the transition between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age: continuity, internal changes and the impact of migrations (2 hours)
Presentation: tel Afis, Syria (2 hours)

9. Lesson: the new political formations of the first millennium BC, the kingdom of Phrygia, the kingdom of Urartu and the Neo-Hittite kingdoms (2 hours)
Presentation: Gordion (2 hours)

10. The final written test (2 hours)

Lectures and presentations by participants with discussion in the class

A. Sagona, P. Zimansky, Ancient Turkey, London New York 2009.

Sh. Steadman, G. McMahon? (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of ancient Anatolia 10,000-323 BCE, Oxford 2011.

Participation; presentation; handout of the presentation; final test (in case of bad results in the final text oral exam)

Participation; presentation; handout of the presentation; final test (in case of bad results in the final text oral exam)