Information Package / Course Catalogue
Chronology of the Western Anatolia’s Early Bronze Age
Course Code: ARKE529
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: -
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course, providing information about the problem of Early Bronze Age chronology in Western Anatolia

Course Content

Providing of the comparative information about the chronology of the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia. Learning of the absolute and relative chronologies related with the term and geography. Evaluation of the results associated with the C14.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.1. Examination of the major findings centers of Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia
2.2. Learning of the chronology works of Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia
3.3. Making comparisons between the Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and Mainland Greece with the chronological aspects
4.Examination of the Early Bronze Age settlements in the Aegean Islands and the Continent of Greece.
5.Comparison of Early Bronze Age centers in Western Anatolia.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.1. Alram-Stern, E., Die Aegaeische Fruehzeit 1. Band. Das Neolithikum in Griechenland, Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 1996.
2.2. Blegen, Carl W. Troy and the Trojans. Rpt. New York, 1995.
3.3. Cadogan,G., "Early and Middle Minoan Chronology," AJA 87(1983) 507-518.
4.4. Coleman, J., "Greece and the Aegean from the Mesolithic to the End of the Early Bronze Age," (Ed.R. W. Ehrich), Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, Chicago 1992, I. cilt:247-279, II. cilt, 203-221.
5.5. Easton, D.F., "Towards a Chronology for the Anatolian Early Bronze Age", AS 26 (1976) 145-173.
6.6. Easton, D.F., "The Chronology of West Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age," BICS 35 (1988) 180-181.
7.7. Efe, T., D. Ş. M. Ay-Efe, “Küllüoba: İç Kuzeybatı Anadolu’da Bir İlk Tunç Çağı Kenti: 1996- 2000 Yılları Arasında Yapılan Kazı Çalışmalarının Genel Değerlendirmesi”, Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi (TÜBA-AR) 4 (2001), 43-78.
8.8. French, D.H., Anatolia and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B. C. (Doktora Tezi, Cambridge Universitesi, 1968).
9.9. Gimbutas, M., "Chronologies of eastern Europe: Neolithic through Early Bronze Age," Chronologies in Old World Archaeology (Ed. R. W. Ehrich), cilt I, 395-406, cilt II, 364-384. Chicago, 1992.
10.10. Korfmann, M.,-Kromer, B., "Demircihüyük, Besik-Tepe, Troia - Eine Zwischenbilanzzur Chronologie dreier Orte in Westanatolien," Studia Troica 3(1993) 135-171.
11.11. Kuniholm, P.I., "The Prehistoric Aegean: Dendrochronological Progress as of 1995," Acta Archaeologica 67 (1996) 327-335.
12.12. Kuniholm, P.I. ve diğerleri, "Anatolian Tree Rings and the Absolute Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean, 2220 - 718 B.C.," Nature 381 (June 1996) 780-783.
13.13. Lloyd, S.- Mellaart, J., Beycesultan I: The Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Level, Londra 1962.
14.14. Manning, S., The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon, and History, Sheffield 1995.
15.15. Manning, S.W., "Troy, Radiocarbon, and the Chronology of the Northeast Aegean in the Early Bronze Age", (ED.C. G. Doumas-V. La Rosa), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio, Atina 1997, 498-521.
16.16. Mellink, M.J., "Anatolian Chronology," in R. W. Ehrich, ed., Chronologies in Old World Archaeology, 3rd ed., Chicago, 1992, Cilt. I: 207-220; Cilt. II: 171-184.
17.17. Nissen, Hans J. The Early History of the Ancient Near East: 9000-2000 B.C., Chicago, 1988.
18.18. Warren, P., "The Aegean and the Limits of Readiocarbon Dating", (Ed.K. Randsborg), Absolute Chronology: Archaeological Europe 2500-500 B.C., Copenhagen 1996, 283-290.
19.19. Warren, P.-Hankey, V., Aegean Bronze Age Chronology, Bristol 1989.
20.20. Wiener, M.H., “Time Out: The Current Impasse in Bronze Age Archaeological Dating”, (Ed.) K. P. Foster-R. Laffineur, METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, Liège/Austin 2003, 363-399.
21.21. http://dendro.cornell.edu
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
1 Providing of the general information and bibliography related the course
Week 2 - Theoretical
2 To give information about the absolute and relative chronology
Week 3 - Theoretical
3 To give information about the chronology works of Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia
Week 4 - Theoretical
4 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece I, Troia and its environs
Week 5 - Theoretical
5 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece II, Troia and its environs
Week 6 - Theoretical
6 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece II, Inner Western Anatolia
Week 7 - Theoretical
7 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece III, Southwestern Anatolia
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
8 Midterm Exam
Week 9 - Theoretical
9 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece IV, Southwestern Anatolia
Week 10 - Theoretical
10 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece V, East Aegean Islands
Week 11 - Theoretical
11 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece VI, East Aegean Islands
Week 12 - Theoretical
12 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece VII, Crete
Week 13 - Theoretical
13 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece VIII, Dodecanese
Week 14 - Theoretical
14 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece IX, Crete
Week 15 - Theoretical
15 Chronological evaluation of the results of Early Bronze Age excavations in Western Anatolia, Aegean Islands and east of the Mainland Greece X, the results of the centers in east of the Mainland Greece
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final examination.
Week 17 - Final Exam
Final examination.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Assignment40312
Seminar41212
Reading70428
Midterm Examination1718
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
4
4
4
OÇ-2
5
4
3
OÇ-3
4
4
4
OÇ-4
OÇ-5
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