PREHISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN UP TO THE II MILLENNIUM
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: PETER DAVID TOMKINSExpected Learning Outcomes
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Module A: Formation and development of Mediterranean civilizations (Tomkins, 3 Credits)
C. Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea. A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World, chapters I-VII, pp. 8-344;
Module B: Early seafaring and technological transfer (Tomkins, 3 Credits)
· Guilaine, Jean. A personal view of the neolithisation of the Western Mediterranean. Quaternary International 470 (2018), 211-225.
· K. Harvati, Röding, C., Bosman, A.M., Karakostis, F.A., Grün, R., Stringer, C., Karkanas, P., Thompson, N.C., Koutoulidis, V., Moulopoulos, L.A. and Gorgoulis, V.G.,. Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature, 571 (7766) (2019), 500-4.
· P. Jordan, Gibbs, K., Hommel, P., Piezonka, H., Silva, F. and Steele, J., Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia: emerging insights and future research. Antiquity, 90 (2016), 590-603.
· T. Leppard, Modeling the Impacts of Mediterranean Island Colonization by Archaic Hominins: The Likelihood of an Insular Lower Palaeolithic Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 27 (2014), 231-53;
· T. Leppard, Process and Dynamics of Mediterranean Neolithization (7000-5500 BC), Journal of Archaeological Research 30 (2021), 231-83.
· T. Strasser, C. Runnels, K. Wegmann, E. Panagopoulou, F. Mccoy, C. Digregorio, P. Karkanas, and N. Thompson. "Dating Palaeolithic sites in southwestern Crete, Greece." Journal of Quaternary Science 26, no. 5 (2011), 553-560.
· P. Tomkins, Just an everyday story of pots? Thinking through the controversies, materialities and dependencies of initial pottery and organic containers in the East Mediterranean, in O. Nieuwenhuyse†, R. Bernbeck and K. Berghuis (eds.) Container Cultures (in press). Oxford: Oxbow (text provided by the professor)
Module C: Prehistory of Sicily (Todaro, 3 Credits)
R. Leighton, Sicily before history, Duckworth 1999.