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Apr 25, 2024
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CARS 2030 - Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
This course surveys the major developments in the material culture of the region known to scholars as the ancient Near East, including the eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia, from the emergence of complex societies through the arrival of Alexander the Great (ca. 8000 BCE - 300 BCE). It also introduces students to the main archaeological methods used in discovery and documentation of the material cultures of this period and region.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Pillar: Social or Behavioral Sciences
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to identify and differentiate relevant theories and approaches to ancient Near Eastern material culture.
- Students will be able to find and summarize archaeological reports relevant to the geographic area of study.
- Students will be able to identify the main material features that define cultural horizons for the major periods and sites in the different regions in the Near East.
- Students will be able to describe the roles within societies of cultural phenomena such as religion, trade, architecture, writing, warfare, craft, and diet and foodways in the development and maintenance of social identities.
- Students will be able to analyze and evaluate arguments that use material culture to make claims about broad social and historical developments in the ancient Near East.
- Students will be able to describe major regional and chronological human social developments (organization, technology, practice, food, climate responsiveness, etc.) based on evidence from material culture.
- Students will be able to describe ways that the field of Near Eastern archaeology and its findings have been influenced by the social identities of the investigators.
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