Instructor: Lisa Maher
Office: South Borden Building, Room 209
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-4 pm, or by appointment
Email: lmaher@chass.utoronto.ca
Lecture: Thursdays 2-4 pm. Sid Smith Building, Room 1083
Neolithic Readings
Chalcolithic Readings - lecture
notes posted each weeh
Early Bronze Age Readings - lecture notes
posted each week
Related Websites
Near Eastern Sites, Chronology, and Maps
Term Paper Due March 31!
Tips
for February 24 Mid-Term
New! Tips
for Final Exam April
7
Pottery
Neolithic Lecture
Levantine
Chalcolithic Lecture
Winter
Term Schedule
Date
|
Topic
|
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The Beginnings of
Village Life
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January 6
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Introduction and
Domestication of Humans I
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January 13
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Domestication of Humans II:
What happended when people began to settle in villages?
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January 20
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The Neolithic: Why did
agricultural communities arise?
Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture, settlement, ritual, and art
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January 27
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Did the PPNB collapse?
Technological changes: textiles, pottery, and others
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The Pottery Neolithic
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February 3
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Did the PPNB collapse?
Origins of Pottery
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February 10
|
Byblos and Yarmukian
Neolithic: Villages, small farms, and pastoral nomads
|
February 17
|
Reading Week :)
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February 24
|
Mid-Term :(
|
March 3
|
Levantine Chalcolithic
|
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A Background to
Urbanism and Greater Mesopotamia
|
March 10
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Rise of Complex Societies
I: Chiefdoms and Pastoralists
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March 17
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Rise of Complex Societies
II: Halafian and Ubaid Cultures
|
March 24
|
Issues of Settlement Size
and Hierarchies: Uruk and Jemdet Nasr Cultures
|
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Complex Societies in
the Ancient Near East
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March 31
|
Rise of Complex Societies
III: Levantine EBA
Paper Due
|
April 7
|
Final Exam
|
Winter Marking Scheme
20% Paper (see
below for tips)
10% Mid-Term
15% Final Exam
5% Participation
Remember that all
of the lecture material (usually figures too) can be found in your
readings or
on recommended websites! Although I have assigned only a few required
readings for each lecture, also reading (or at least browsing) the
recommended ones will ensure you do well on the tests and will serve as
excellent starter references for your papers.
Required
Readings:
January 6th
Banning, E.B.
1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of
architecture, agriculture, and art. Near
Eastern Archaeology* 61: 188-237.
*In order to get this online, you have to go to
the JSTOR page for Near Eastern Archaeology, volume 61, issue 4 from a
computer connected to Robarts Library. Then, click on the title for Dr.
Banning's article "The Neolithic Period...". This will bring you to a
page that lists the publication details of the paper. Click on the link
saying Check
SFX For Availability. In the new window, click on Full
text available through EBSCO ATLA Serials. At the next new
window, go to page 21 where you will see a bibliographic reference for
Dr. Banning's article. Here click on Full Text From ATLA: Click
here for electronic resource. You show now be able to read the
full text!
You can also get this reference on short-term loam from Robarts (check
under ARH360) or, if
it has been returned by other students, in my mailbox in the Department
of Anthropology.
Bar-Yosef, O.
1998 The Natufian Culture in the Levant,
Theshold to the Origins of Agriculture. Evolutionary Anthropology 6(5):
159-177.
January 13th
Lev-Yadun, S., A. Gopher, and S. Abbo
2000 Cradle of Agriculture. Science 288(5471):1602-1603.
Kuijt, I. and N. Goring-Morris
2002 Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity
in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Review and
Synthesis. Journal of World
Prehistory 16 (4): 361-440.
Banning, E.B.
1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of
architecture, agriculture, and art. Near
Eastern Archaeology 61: 188-237.
Banning, E.B.
2003 Housing Neolithic Farmers. Near Eastern Archaeology
66:4-21.
Recommended Readings (FYI and
to get you started on your papers)
Bar-Yosef,
O., and Belfer-Cohen, A.
1989. The
origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant. Journal
of World Prehistory 3:447-498.
Bar-Yosef,
Ofer, and A. Belfer-Cohen
1992
From foraging to farming in the Mediterranean Levant. In Transitions
to Agriculture, edited by A. B. Gebauer and T. D. Price, pp. 21-48.
Prehistory
Press, Ann Arbor.
Bar-Yosef, Ofer, and R. H. Meadow
1995 The
origins of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Near and Middle
East. In Last Hunters, First Farmers: New Perspectives on the
Prehistoric
Transition to Agriculture, edited by T.D. Price and A.G. Gebauer, pp
39-94. SAR Press, Santa Fe.
Binford, Lewis R.
1968
Post-Pleistocene adaptations. In New Perspectives in Archeology,
edited by Sally R. and L. R. Binford, Aldine Publishing, Chicago.
Braidwood, R., et al.
1953
Symposium: Did Man Once Live by Bread Alone? American Anthropologist
55 (4):15-526.
Childe, V. Gordon
1952 New
Light on the Most Ancient East. Routledge & Paul, London.
Cohen, Mark
1977 The
Food Crisis in Prehistory. Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, CT
1989 Health
and the Rise of Civilization. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Flannery, Kent V.
1969
Origins and ecological effects of early domestication in Iran and the
Near East. In The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and
Animals,
edited by Peter J. Ucko and G. W. Dimbleby, pp. xxx. Aldine Publishing,
Chicago.
Hayden, Brian
1996
Feasting in prehistoric and traditional societies. In P. Wiessner &
W. Schiefenhovel (eds), Food and the Status Quest. Berghahn
Books:
Providence.
Pp. 127-147.
Henry, Donald O.
1989 From
Foraging to Agriculture: The Levant at the End of the Ice Age.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Katz, S.H., and Mary Voigt
1986
Bread and beer: The early use of cereals in the human diet. Expedition
28 (2):23-34.
Moore,
A.M.T.
1982 Agricultural origins in the Near East: a model for the
1980's. World
Archaeology 14(2): 224-236.
McCorriston, J. and F. Hole
1991 The Ecology of Seasonal Stress and the Origins of
Agriculture in the Near East. American Anthropologist 93(1):
46-69.
Rindos,
David
1984. The
Origins of Agriculture: An Evolutionary Perspective . Academic
Press
Sauer, Carl
1952
Agricultural Origins and Dispersals. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Smith, P.E.L.,
and T. Cuyler Young
1983 The
force of numbers: Population pressure in the central western Zagros
12,000-4,500 B.C. In The Hilly Flanks and Beyond: Essays on
the Prehistory
of Southwestern Asia Presented to Robert J. Braidwood, edited by T.
C.
Young, Jr., P. E. L. Smith, and P. Mortensen, Studies in
Ancient
Oriental Civilization 36. Oriental Institute, Chicago.
Watkins, T.
1990
The Origins of House and Home? World
Archaeology 21(3): 336-347.
Zohary, Daniel
1989
Domestication of the Southwest Asian Neolithic crop assemblage of
cereals, pulses, and flax: The evidence from the living plants. In Foraging
and
Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, edited by D. Harris
and G. Hillman, pp. 358-373. Unwin Hyman, London.
January 20th
Kuijt, I. and N. Goring-Morris
2002 Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity
in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Review and
Synthesis. Journal of World
Prehistory 16 (4): 361-440.
Banning, E.B.
1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of
architecture, agriculture, and art. Near
Eastern Archaeology 61: 188-237.
Byrd, B.
1994 Public and private, domestic and
corporate: The emergence of the Southwest Asian village. American
Antiquity
49(4): 639-666.
Recommended
Readings
Bar-Yosef, O. and D. Alon
1988
Excavations in the Nahal Hemar Cave. Atiqot 18.
Bienert, H.D.
2001
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) of Jordan: A First Step Towards
Proto-Urbanism? In Studies in the History and Archaeology of
Jordan
VII. Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Amman, pp. 107-119.
Cauvin, Jacques
1994. Naissance
des Divinités, Naissance de l'Agriculture. CNRS Editions,
Paris.
Ducos, P.
1993.
Proto-élevage et élevage au Levant Sud au VIIe
millénaire B.C. les données de la Damascène. Paléorient
19: 153-173.
Garfinkel, Y.
1987
Yiftahel: A Neolithic Village from the Seventh Millenium B.C. in Lower
Galilee, Israel. Journal
of Field Archaeology 14(2): 199-212.
Gebel, H.-G. and B.D. Hermansen
2000
The 2000 season at Late Neolithic Ba'Ja. Neo-Lithics 2(3):
20-22.
Goren, Y., Goring-Morris, N. and I.
Segal
2001 The Technology of Skull Modelling in the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic B (PPNB): Regional Variability, the Relation of Technology
and Iconography
and
their Archaeological Implications. Journal of Archaeological Science
28: 671-690.
Goring-Morris, N.
2001 A
PPNB Settlement at Kfar Hahoresh in Lower Galilee: A Preliminary Report
of the 1991 Season. Mitekufat Haeven 24: 77-101.
Hodder, I (ed)
2000 Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: The Example at
Çatalhöyük. McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research / British
Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph No.28
Kenyon, K.
1981 Excavations
at Jericho. Volume III: The Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Tell.
British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, London.
Kirkebride, D.
1968
Beidha 1967: An Interim Report. Palestine Exploration Quarterly
100: 90-96.
Kozlowski, S.K.
1990
Architecture of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Settlement in Nemrik, Iraq. World
Archaeology 21(3): 348-362.
Mellaart, J.
1967 Çatal Hüyük: A Neolithic Town in
Anatolia. Thames and Hudson: London.
Mellaart, J.
1975 The
Neolithic of the Near East. Thames and Hudson, London.
Najjar, M.
1994
Ghwair I, a Neolithic site in Wadi Feinan. In The Near East in
Antiquity, ed. by S. Kerner. Al Kutba, Amman, pp. 75-85.
Nissen, H.J., Muheisen, M.
and H.G. Gebel
1988
Report on the First Two Seasons of Excavation at Basta. Annual of
the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 31: 79-119.
Özdögan, M. and A. Özdögan
1989
Cayönü. Paleorient
15:65-74.
Rollefson, G.
1998
The Aceramic Neolithic. In The Prehistoric Archaeology of Jordan,
ed. by D.O. Henry, Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 102-126.
Rollefson, G., A. Simmons,
and Z, Kafafi
1992
Neolithic Cultures at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Journal of Field
Archaeology 19(4): 443-470.
Simmons, A. Rollefson, G.,
Kafafi, Z., and K. Moyer
1989
Test Excavations at Wadi Shu'eib, A Major Neolithic Settlement in
Central Jordan. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan
33:
27-42.
Watkins,
T.
1990
The Origins of House and Home? World
Archaeology 21(3): 336-347.
January 27th
Banning, E.B.
1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of
architecture, agriculture, and art. Near
Eastern Archaeology 61: 188-237.
Kuijt, I.
2000 People and Space in Early Agricultural
Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size, and Architecture in
the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Journal
of
Anthropological Archaeology 19: 75-102. Just browse quickly
through this one!
Kuijt, I. and N. Goring-Morris
2002 Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity
in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A Review and
Synthesis. Journal of World
Prehistory 16 (4): 361-440.
Rollefson,
G., A. Simmons,
and Z, Kafafi
1992
Neolithic Cultures at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Journal of Field
Archaeology 19(4): 443-470.
Recommended
Readings
Rollefson, G. and I. Köhler-Rollefson
1989
The Collapse of the Early Neolithic Settlements in teh Southern Levant.
In People and Culture in Change, ed. by I. Hershkovitz, British
Archaeology
Reports, International Series, 508, Oxford, pp. 73-89.
Simmons, A.
2000
Villages on the Edge: Regional Settlement Change at the End of the
Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic. In Life in Neolithic Farming
Communities: Social Organization, Identity, and Differentiation,
ed. by I. Kuijt, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York,
pp.
211-230.
February 3rd
Kuijt, I.
2000 People and Space in Early Agricultural
Villages: Exploring Daily Lives, Community Size, and Architecture in
the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Journal
of
Anthropological Archaeology 19: 75-102.
Rice, P.M.
1999 On
the Origins of Pottery. Journal
of Archaeological Method and Theory
6(1):1-54.
Rollefson,
G., A. Simmons,
and Z, Kafafi
1992
Neolithic Cultures at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan. Journal of Field
Archaeology 19(4): 443-470.
Recommended
Readings
Gopher, A. and R. Gophna
1993
Cultures of the Eighth and Seventh Millennia BP in the Southern Levant:
A Review for the 1990's. Journal of
World Prehistory 7(3):
297-353.
Kafafi, Z.
1998
The Late Neolithic in Jordan. In The Prehistoric Archaeology of Jordan,
edited by D.O. Henry, BAR International Series volume 705,
Oxford,
pp.
127-138.
Kaplan, J.
1969
'Ein al-Jarba: Chalcolithic Remains in the Plain of Esdraelon. Bulletin
of the American Schools of Oriental Research 194: 2-39.
Moore, A.M.T.
1995
The Inception of Pottery in Western Asia and its Impact on Economy and
Society. In The Emergence of
Pottery: Technology and
Innovation in
Ancient
Societies, edited by W.K. Barnett and J.W. Hoopes, Smithsonian
Institute Press, Washington, pp. 39-53.
February 10th
Pottery
Neolithic Lecture
Banning, E.B.
1998 The Neolithic Period: Truimphs of
architecture, agriculture, and art. Near
Eastern Archaeology 61: 188-237.
Garfinkel, Y.
1993 The Yarmoukian Culture in Israel.
Paleorient 19(1): 115-134. This article is also online. Click
here for its link.
Recommended
Readings
Akkermans, P. and M. Verhoeven
1995 An
Image of Complexity: The Burnt Village at Late Neolithic Sabi Abyad,
Syria. American Journal of
Archaeology 99: 5-32.
Gopher, A. and R. Gophna
1993
Cultures of the Eighth and Seventh Millennia BP in the Southern Levant:
A Review for the 1990's. Journal of
World Prehistory 7(3):
297-353. (A very good summary for the Southern Levant)
Maisels, Charles Keith
1999
Early Civilizations of the Old World: The Formative Histories of Egypt,
The Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China. Routledge, New York,
pp.
80-185.
Garfinkel, Y. and M. A. Miller
2002 Sha'ar
Hagolan Volume 1: Neolithic Art in Context. Oxbow, Oxford.
Gilead, I.
1990 The
Neolithic-Chalcolithic Transition and the Qatifian of the Northern
Negev and
Sinai. Levant 22:47-63.
Gopher, A. and R. Greenberg
1996 The
Pottery Neolithic Levels. In Dan I: A Chronicle of the Excavations,
the
Pottery Neolithic, the Early Bronze Age and the Middle
Bronze Age
Tombs,
edited by A. Biran, D. Ilan and R. Greenberg, pp. 67-81. Annual of the
Nelson
Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology.
Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, Jerusalem.
Gopher, A. and E. Orrelle
1996 An
Alternative Interpretation for the Material Imagery of the Yarmukian, a
Neolithic Culture of the Sixth Millennium BC in the Southern
Levant. Cambridge
Archaeological Journal 6(2):255-279.
Hijjara, I.
1997 The
Halaf Period in Northern Mesopotamia. EDUBBA 6. Nabu, London.
Kafafi, Z.
1987 The
Pottery Neolithic in Jordan in Connection with other Near Eastern
Regions. Studies
in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 3:33-
39.
Kafafi, Z.
1992 Pottery
Neolithic Settlement Patterns in Jordan. Studies in the History and
Archaeology of Jordan 4:115-122.
Kafafi, Z.
1993 The
Yarmoukians in Jordan. Paléorient 19(1):101-114.
Kafafi, Z.
1998 The
Late Neolithic in Jordan. In The Prehistoric Archaeology of Jordan,
edited by D. O. Henry, pp. 127-138. vol. 705. BAR
International
Series, Oxford.
Kaplan, J.
1958 Excavation
at Teluliot Batashi in the Vale of Sorek. Eretz-Israel 5:83-84.
Kaplan, J.
1958 Excavations
at Wadi Rabah. Israel Exploration Journal 8:149-160.
Kaplan, J.
1959 The
Neolithic Pottery of Palestine. Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental
Research 156:15-22.
Kaplan, J.
1960 The
Relation of the Chalcolithic Pottery of Palestine to Halafian Ware. Bulletin
of the American Schools of Oriental Research 159:
32-36.
Kaplan, J.
1969 'Ein
el Jarba: Chalcolithic Remains in the Plain of Esdraelon. Bulletin
of the
American Schools of Oriental Research 194:2-39.
Kenyon, K. M. and T. A. Holland
1982 Excavations
at Jericho, volume four: The pottery type series and other finds. British
School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, London.
Lovell, J. L.
2001 The
Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant: New
Data from
the Site of Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. Bar
International
Series 974.
Archaeopress, Oxford.
Moore, A. M. T.
1973 The
Late Neolithic in Palestine. Levant 10:36-68.
Muheisen, M., H. G. K. Gebel, C. Hannss and
R. Neef
1988 Excavations
at 'Ain Rahub, a Final Natufian and Yarmoukian Site near Irbid. In The
Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in
1986,
edited by A.
N.
Garrard and H. G. K. Gebel, pp. 473-502. vol. 396 (ii). BAR
International
Series, Oxford.
Orrelle, E. and A. Gopher
2001 The
Pottery Neolithic Period: Questions about Pottery Decoration,
Symbolism, and
Meaning. In Life in Neolithic Farming Communities:
Social
Organization,
Identity, and Differentiation, edited by I. Kuijt, pp. 295-308.
Kluwer
Academic/Plenum, New York.
Rollefson, G. O.
1993 The
Origins of the Yarmoukian at 'Ain Ghazal. Paléorient
19(1):91-100.
Simmons, A. H., G. O. Rollefson, Z. Kafafi,
R. D. Mandel, M. al-Nahar, J. Cooper, I. Köhler-Rollefson and K.
Roler
Durand
2001 Wadi
Shu'eib, A Large Neolithic Community in Central Jordan: Final Report of
Test
Excavations. Bulletin of the American Schools of
Oriental
Research 321:1-39.
Stekelis, M.
1950-1951 A
New Neolithic Industry: the Yarmukian of Palestine. Israel
Exploration
Society 1:1-19.
Stekelis, M.
1972 The
Yarmoukian Culture of the Neolithic Period. The Magnes Press,
Jerusalem.
February 17th
Reading Week
Although not required, I highly recommend reading Dug
to Death: A Tale of Archaeological Method and Mayhem by Adrian
Praetzellis. Its a crazy
combination fieldguide/mystery novel for archaeology
students. It actually
makes learning archaeological methods and techniques fun - no really, I
mean it!
February 24rd
Mid-Term (too late if you haven't done the
readings...)
March 3rd
Levantine
Chalcolithic Lecture (Note: this is not the complete lecture, only
what I
told you I would put on the website in class).
Levy, T.E.
1986 The Chalcolithic Period. Biblical
Archaeologist 82-108. This
article
is now available on short-term loan at Robarts Library. Or,
you can
come to my office and sign out the article from me
to photocopy!
Moorey, P.R.S.
1988 The Chalcolithic hoard from Nahal
Mishmar, Israel, in context. World Archaeology
20(2): 171-189.
Sherratt, A.
1983 The secondary exploitation of animals in
the Old World. World
Archaeology 15(1): 90-104.
Levy, T.E.
1983 The emergence of specialized pastoralism
in the southern Levant. World Archaeology
15(1): 15-36.
Recommended
Readings (Remember, all recommended readings are FYI and to help on
your paper, you will
not
be tested on them)
Abdi, K.
2003 The Early Development of Pastoralism in the
Central Zagros Mountains.
Journal of World Prehistory 17(4): 395-448.
Bourke, S.J.
2002 The Origins of Social Complexity in the
Southern Levant: New Evidence From Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. Palestine
Exploration
Quarterly 134(1): 2-27.
Galili, E., D.J.
Stanley, J. Sharvit, and M. Weinstein-Evron
1997 Evidence for Earliest Olive-Oil Production in Submerged
Settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel. Journal
of Archaeological Science 24:
1141-1150.
Gilead, I.
1989 Grar: A Chalcolithic Site in the Northern Negev, Israel. Journal of Field
Archaeology 16: 377-394.
Golden, J., T.E.
Levy, and A. Hauptmann
2001 Recent Discoveries Concerning Chalcolithic Metallurgy at
Shiqmim, Israel. Journal
of Archaeological Science 28: 951-963.
Levy, T.E.
1995 Cult, Metallurgy and Rank Societies -
Chalcolithic Period (CA. 4500-3500 BCE). In The Archaeology of
Society
in the Holy Land, ed.
by T.E. Levy, pp. 226-243. Leicester University
Press:
London.
Levy, T.E. and S. Shalev
1989 Prehistoric metalworking in the southern Levant:
archaeometallurgical and social perspectices. World Archaeology
20(3): 352-372.
March 10th
Levantine
Chalcolithic Lecture (Note: this is not the complete lecture, only
what I
told you I would put on the website in class).
Levy, T.E.
1986 The Chalcolithic Period. Biblical
Archaeologist June: 82-108.
This
article
is now available on short-term loan at Robarts Library. Or, you can
come to my office and sign out the article from me
to photocopy!
Moorey, P.R.S.
1988 The Chalcolithic hoard from Nahal
Mishmar, Israel, in context. World Archaeology
20(2): 171-189.
Sherratt, A.
1983 The secondary exploitation of animals in
the Old World. World
Archaeology 15(1): 90-104.
Levy, T.E.
1983 The emergence of specialized pastoralism
in the southern Levant. World Archaeology
15(1): 15-36.
Recommended
Readings
Abdi, K.
2003 The Early Development of Pastoralism in the
Central Zagros Mountains.
Journal of World Prehistory 17(4): 395-448.
Bourke, S.J.
2002 The Origins of Social Complexity in the
Southern Levant: New Evidence From Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan. Palestine
Exploration
Quarterly 134(1): 2-27.
Galili, E., D.J.
Stanley, J. Sharvit, and M. Weinstein-Evron
1997 Evidence for Earliest Olive-Oil Production in Submerged
Settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel. Journal
of Archaeological Science 24:
1141-1150.
Gilead, I.
1989 Grar: A Chalcolithic Site in the Northern Negev, Israel. Journal of Field
Archaeology 16: 377-394.
Golden, J., T.E.
Levy, and A. Hauptmann
2001 Recent Discoveries Concerning Chalcolithic Metallurgy at
Shiqmim, Israel. Journal
of Archaeological Science 28: 951-963.
Levy, T.E.
1995 Cult, Metallurgy and Rank Societies -
Chalcolithic Period (CA. 4500-3500 BCE). In The Archaeology of
Society
in the Holy Land, ed.
by T.E. Levy, pp. 226-243. Leicester University
Press:
London.
Levy, T.E. and S. Shalev
1989 Prehistoric metalworking in the southern Levant:
archaeometallurgical and social perspectices. World Archaeology
20(3): 352-372.
March 17th
Let's
try something new . . . many of your readings this week are actually
academic-ish websites about the Halafian and Ubaid periods - everyone
should have no problems accessing them. Some of these are websites from
other courses and others are somewhat academic sources (the Ancient
Near East source). Remember, for your papers - always go to the real
source!!!
The
Halafian Culture (follow the links to Tepe Gawra, Arpachiyah,
Carchemish)
Prehistoric
Ubaid Culture (follow the links to Arpachiyah, Ur)
The
Ubaid Culture
H3: An
Ubaid Site in Arabia
The Site
of Eridu
Images
of Ubaid Culture
Ancient Sumer
History (follow the links to Eridu, Uruk, Ur)
Halafian
and Ubaid Lecture
Maisels, Charles Keith
1999 Ubaid. In Early Civilizations of the
Old
World: The Formative
Histories of Egypt, The Levant, Mesopotamia, India and China.
Routledge,
New York, pp. 136-185. This is a book section entitled 'Ubaid'
now available on short-term loan from Robart's Library. Only read the
parts entitled
'Ubaid' and 'Childe's Checklist'. Don't worry about
the rest. Or, you can come to my office and sign out the book section
from me to photocopy.
Sherratt,
A.
1983 The secondary exploitation of animals in
the Old World. World
Archaeology 15(1): 90-104.
Recommended
Readings
Bernbeck, R.
1995 Lasting Alliances and Emerging Competition: Economic
Development in Early Mesopotamia. Journal
of Anthropological Archaeology 14:
1-25.
Eslick, C.
1980 Middle Chalcolithic Pottery from Southwestern Anatolia. American Journal of
Archaeology 84: 5-14.
Gilbert, A.S.
1983 On the origins of specialized nomadic pastoralism in western
Iran. World
Archaeology 15(1): 105-119.
Pollock, Susan
1999 Ancient Mesopotamia. Cambridge University
Press,
Cambridge, pp. 78-116. Of those
posted here, this is by far the best summary on
the Ubaid and Uruk cultures.
Stein, G.J., R.
Bernbeck, C. Coursey, A. McMahon, N. Miller, A. Misir, J. Nicola, H.
Pittman, S. Pollock, and H. Wright
1996 Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities: An Interim Report
on the 1992-1993 Excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey. American Journal of
Archaeology 100:
205-260.
March 24th
The
Uruk Period
Ancient Sumer
History (follow links to Ur, Uruk, Nippur)
Hacinebi:
An Uruk Site (know this site!)
Images
of the Uruk Culture
Uruk
- The British Museum
Uruk, Iraq
Uruk
Lecture
Algaze, G.
2001 The Prehistory of
Imperialism. In Uruk Mesopotamia and
its
Neighbours: Cross-Cultural Interactions on the Era of State Formation,
by
M.S. Rothman (ed.).
School of American Research Press, Santa Fe, p. 27-46. Two copies are on short-term loan at
Robart's Library. Or, you can
come to my
office and sign out the book section from me to photocopy.
Oates,
Joan
1993 Trade and power in the fifth and fourth millennia BC:
new evidence from northern Mesopotamia. World Archaeology
24(3): 403-422.
Pollock, S. M. Pope, and C. Coursey
1996 Household Production at the Uruk
Mound, Abu Salabikh, Iraq. American Journal of
Archaeology
100: 683-98.
Rothman, M.
2004 Studying the Development of Complex
Society: Mesopotamia in the Late Fifth and Fourth Millennia BC. Journal
of Archaeological Research
12(1): 75-119. This is a very long article that you
will NOT be tested on and is technically not required reading; however,
it is an excellent summary of
Uruk
culture!
Recommended
Readings
Algaze, G.
1993 The Uruk World System:
The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
pp. 162. (particularly chapters 5 and 6)
Pollock, Susan
1999 Ancient Mesopotamia. Cambridge University
Press,
Cambridge, pp. 78-116. Of those
posted here, this is by far the best summary on
the Ubaid and Uruk cultures.
Rothman, M.S.
(editor)
2001 Uruk Mesopotamia and its
Neighbours: Cross-Cultural Interactions on the Era of State Formation.
School of American Research
Press, Santa Fe, pp. 556. (particularly chapter 1, 2
and 6)
Stein, G.J., R.
Bernbeck, C. Coursey, A. McMahon, N. Miller, A. Misir, J. Nicola, H.
Pittman, S. Pollock, and H. Wright
1996 Uruk Colonies and Anatolian Communities: An Interim Report
on the 1992-1993 Excavations at Hacinebi, Turkey. American Journal of
Archaeology 100:
205-260.
March
31st
Early
Bronze Age Lecture
Herr, L.G.
2002 5,000-year-old burials in
Jordan. Near
Eastern Archaeology 65(4): 282-283.
Ilan, D.
2002 Mortuary Practices in Early
Bronze Age Canaan. Near
Eastern Archaeology 65(2): 92-104.
Mazar, A.
1990 The Emergence of Cities: The
Early Bronze Age (ca. 3300-2300 BCE). In Archaeology of the Land of the Bible:
10,000-586 B.C.E.
DoubleDay, New York, pp. 91-111. This reference is available on
short-term loan at Robart's Library as of Mon, March 28. Or, you can
come to my office and sign out
the book section from me to photocopy.
Recommended
Readings
The
Early Bronze Age of the Levant: AncientNearEast.Net
A
PDF document by G. Wright detailing the Early Bronze Age in
Southwestern Asia
Avner, U. and I. Carmi
2001 Settlement Patterns in the Southern
Levant Deserts During The 6th-3rd Millennia BC: A Revision Based on 14C
Dating. Radiocarbon
43(3): 1203-1216.
Chesson, M. and G. Philip
2003 "Tales of the City? 'Urbanism in the Early Bronze Age Levant
from Mediterranean and Levantine Perspectives". Journal of Mediterranean
Archaeology 16(1): 79-102.
Curvers, H.H. and G.M. Schwartz
1997 Umm el-Marra, A Bronze Age Urban Center in the Jabbul Plain,
Western Syria. American
Journal of Archaeology 101: 201-239.
Falconer, S.E.
1995 Rural Responses to Early Urbanism: Bronze Age Household and
Village Economy at Tell el-Hayyat, Jordan. Journal of
Field Archaeology
22: 399-419.
Falconer, S.E. and S.
Savage
1995 Heartlands and Hinterlands: Alternative Trajectories of
Early Urbanization in Mesopotamia and the Southern Levant. American Antiquity
60(1): 37-58.
Some
Recommended Websites to
Check Out!
Dhra':
A PPNA village in Jordan
Aswad and Goraife:
Two PPNA sites in Syria
The
PPNA in the Levant
Abu
Hureyra: A PPNA site in Syria
The
Emergence of Agriculture
Bioarchaeology
of the Agricultural Transition
'Ain
Ghazal: A Neolithic Village in Jordan or The
Town of 'Ain Ghazal
Çatalhöyük:
Excavations of a Neolithic Anatolian
Höyük
Cave of
the Treasure (Chalcolithic)
Cave of the
Warrior (Chalcolithic)
Royal
Tombs of Ur
Sites, Chronology,
and Maps
discussed in class.
Some
major PPNA sites
al-Khiam
Netiv
Hagdud
Abu
Hureyra
Jarmo
Jerf
al-Ahmar
Gilgal
I
Dhra'
Zahrat
adh-Dhra' 2
Jericho
Nahal Oren
Abu Madi
Nachcharini
Mureybit
Hallan
Çami
Iraq
ad-Dubb
Çayönü
Tell Aswad
Some major PPNB (and contemporary) sites
'Ain Ghazal
Jericho
Basta
Beidha
Ba'ja
Munhata
Wadi
Shu'eib
Kfar HaHoresh
Godin Tepe
Ganj
Dareh Tepe
Abu
Salem
Nahal Lavan
109
Çatal
Höyük
Çayönü
Jilat 7
Jebel
Queisa
Yiftahel
Ghwair
I
Nahal
Hemar
Tell Aswad
Nevali Çori
Mureybit
Cafer Höyük
Nahal Oren
Beisamoun
Bouqras
Abu Hureyra
Boytepe
Some
major Final PPNB/PPNC sites
'Ain Abu Nekhaleh
Basta
(?)
Tell Ramad (?)
'Ain Ghazal
Wadi Shu'eib
Abu Hureyra
Bouqras
el-Kowm
Çayönü (?)
Some
major Late or Pottery Neolithic sites
Sha'ar HaGolan
Jericho
Byblos
Munhata
'Ain Ghazal
Jebel Abu
Thawwab
Wadi Rabah
Tabaqat al-Buma
Tell Halaf
Tell Hassuna
Umm
Dabaghiya
Yarim Tepe
I
Tell as-Sawwan
Arpachiyah
Tell Batashi
Tell
Sotto
'Ain al-Jarba
Ganj Dareh
Çatal
Höyük
Tell Sarab
Tell Guran
Some
major Chalcolithic sites
In the Levant:
Teleilat Ghassul
Shiqmim
Nahal Mishmar
Wadi Feinan
'Ein Gedi
'Ain ar-Hariri
Hadera
Azor
Gilat
Bir as-Safedi
Beer Sheba
In Mesopotamia (Halafian and Ubaid):
Tell Halaf
Arpachiyah
Tell Sabi
Abyad
Yarim Tepe
Tell 'Oeuili
Tell
Abada
Tell al-Ubaid
Eridu
Susa
Ur
Tepe
Gawra
Uruk
Some
major Uruk and Jamdet Nasr (Late Chalcolithic) sites
Uruk/Warka/Erech
Ur
Hacinebi
Godin Tepe
Nineveh
Susa
Habuba Kabira
Jamdet Nasr
Farukhabad
Tell Brak
Some
major Early Bronze Age sites in the Levant
Yarmuth
Megiddo
Beth Shean
Arad
'Ein Teo
Beth Yerah
Tel
Malhata
Yiftahel
Byblos
Jawa
Bab edh-Dhra'
Hartuv
Tell el-Far'ah
'Ai
Tell Umm Hamad
Tell Rakan
Tell Erani
Jericho
Term Paper Topics
As we discussed
in class, your term paper will focus on a particular archaeological
site. You may choose any Near Eastern site (including sites in Egypt)
as long as it falls within the time periods covered for the winter term
(Neolithic to Early Bronze Age). I would recommend either a site
mentioned in class that you were particularly interested in, or a site
that has enough publications to allow you to talk academically about
the issue you have chosen (see below).
How to go about writing your paper?
Do not simply summarize the excavation
reports for the site. And, you do not need to reinterate everything
found at the site. Instead, use the site to discuss a relevant arena of
research. I want you to use that site as an example to talk about a
particular issue, archaeological problem, or area of research that we
discussed in class, such as...
a) the social and
ideological consequence of sedentism and village life,
b) how the site contributes
to or disputes our current hypotheses regarding the origins of
agriculture,
c) what particular aspects
of the site provide evidence for the shift to urbanism, etc.
Alternatively, you could choose a site occupied over
several time periods and discuss (and evaluate) a particular aspect of
the site. For example, if you chose 'Ain Ghazal, you could research and
discuss the evidence for changes in architecture from the MPPNB to the
Yarmoukian. Of course, you would also want to discuss the social,
economic, technological, and ideological implications of these changes,
such as how compartmentalizing space affects social relationships
within and outside the house, public versus private space, mechanisms
for unifying an increasingly household-based community, etc... (you
could also propose alternative explanations, but ensure that you can
back up your interpretations).
Remember to research the site thoroughly, evaluate
and/or critique the various arguments, and use these to frame your own
points and arguments.
Tips for Writing Your Term Paper
- Paper Length:
You paper
should be no longer than 8 pages,
double-spaced, 12 point font, single-sided. Part of your mark will
incorporate the ability to be clear and concise in your arguements.
- Address an Issue:
You paper
should have a point - an argument or
research issue that you are addressing. Don't just summarize other
people's work. Clearly state the issue at the
beginning of the paper and focus your writing on this issue. You do not
have to summarize everything that has
been written on this topic - only discuss things that directly relate
to the issue/argument you are addressing.
- Appropriate References:
Encyclopedias, websites, and
other online
resources (except online academic journals) are not appropriate for
this
assignment. Go to the original source! That means you will probably
have to make
one, or several, trips to Robarts and other libraries. So, PLAN AHEAD.
Do not wait until the last minute because references you want may not
be available or may require you to request them through inter-library
loan. Not being able to find references is an unacceptable excuse for a
poorly-researched paper.
Use the required and recommended reading lists to find
references on your topic. If you are unsure about appropraite
references or how to find them, email me.
- Due Date:
Your paper is due March 31,
2005. A late
penalty of 10% per day will apply after this date. This means that if
you hand you paper in on April 1st, the best you can possibly get is
90/100.
I'll post more information here as the term progresses. If you have
questions about the paper, email me or make an appointment to see me. I
will post everyone's relevant questions and my answers.