ARCHEOLOGIA DEL MEDITERRANEO ORIENTALE

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year - Curriculum Archeologico
Teaching Staff: Simona Venera TODARO
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-OR/05 - Ancient Near East archaeology and art history
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Course Structure

Classes will be performed through the use of traditional lectures and by the use of interactive methods such as group discussions.


Detailed Course Content

The course intends to outline the development of the civiizations that floruished in the Aegean and the Anstolic-levantine coast between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (ca. 7000-1200 a.C.): particular attention will be paid to Neolithci revolution, to the rise of Minoan palaces and to the Mycenean civilitazion


Textbook Information

- T. CULLEN (ed.) Aegean Prehistory a Review, (American Journal of Archaeology Monograph, 2001
- E. H. CLINE (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology) Oxford University press, Oxford 2010.
- C. W. SHELMERDINE (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008.
- Le lezioni di J. RUTTER, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean, consultabili liberamente online sul sito http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=104


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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.