Information Package / Course Catalogue
Troy and the Aegean Archaelogy
Course Code: ARKE624
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

In this course, the most important Bronze Age site of Troy in Northwest Anatolia, the Aegean Archaeology is to provide information about the contributions.

Course Content

Settlement of Troy, layering, the chronology of the Aegean world, the place and importance among the issues be discussed.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Prof. Emre ERDAN
Learning Outcomes
1.Examination of the history of the excavations of Troy and layers.
2.Troy culture, extension and interaction of Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands to learn.
3.Chronological perspective with Troy be comparisons between the centers of Western Anatolia and the Aegean islands.
4.To understand the importance place in the world and especially in the Aegean Bronze Age Troy.
5.To understand the importance place in the world and especially in the Aegean Bronze Age Troy. Düzelt Sil
Recommended or Required Reading
1.1. Basedow, M., “Troy without Homer: The Bronze Age – Iron Age Transition in the Troad,” (ED.) S. P. Morris-R. Laffineur, EPOS. Reconsidering Greek Epic and Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology [Aegaeum 28] (Liège/Austin 2007) 49-58.
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.
4.1. 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. French, D.H., Anatolia and the Aegean in the Third Millennium B. C. (Doktora Tezi, Cambridge Universitesi, 1968).
8.8. Harmankaya, S.-Erdoğu, B., Türkiye Arkeolojik Yerleşmeleri 4a ve 4b, İlk Tunç Çağı, İstanbul, 2002.
9.9. I. Hajnal, “Uilusa – Taruisa. Sprachwissenschaftliche Nachbetrachtungen zum Beitrag von Susanne Heinhold-Krahmer”, (Ed.) C. Ulf, Der neue Streit um Troja: Eine Bilanz, Munich 2003, 169-173.
10.10. (Kollektif), Troya, Efsane ile Gerçek Arası Bir Kente Yolculuk (Sergi Kataloğu), İstanbul, 2002.
11.11. (Kollektif), -Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Karşıdan Karşıya. MÖ 3. Bin'de Kiklad Adaları ve Batı Anadolu, İstanbul, 2011.
12.12. Korfmann, M.,-Kromer, B., "Demircihüyük, Besik-Tepe, Troia - Eine Zwischenbilanzzur Chronologie dreier Orte in Westanatolien," Studia Troica 3(1993) 135-171.
13.13. Kuniholm, P.I., "The Prehistoric Aegean: Dendrochronological Progress as of 1995," Acta Archaeologica 67 (1996) 327-335.
14.14. 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.
15.15. Manning, S., The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon, and History, Sheffield 1995.
16.16. 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.
17.17. Sazcı, G., Troia I- III, Die Maritime Troia- Kultur und Troia IV-V, Die Anatolische Troia Kultur: Eine Untersuchung der Funde und Befunde im Mittleren Schliemanngraben, Studia Troica 15 (2005), 35- 98.
18.18. Sazcı, G., Troia Hazineleri, İstanbul, 2007.
19.19. Sazcı, G.,- Korfmann. M., Metallfunde des 3. Jahrtausends v. u. z. aus Troia- Eine Studie in Verbindung mit den Ergebnissen der neuen Ausgrabungen. Der Anschnitt13 (2000), 93- 100.
20.20. 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.
21.21. Warren, P.-Hankey, V., Aegean Bronze Age Chronology, Bristol 1989.
22.22. 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.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Contents of course, important of course, aims of course, major reference books and other sources
Week 2 - Theoretical
Information about the location and the geographical location of Troy.
Week 3 - Theoretical
Troy and Troas Region (partly Biga Peninsula) to give information about the history of excavation and research.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Troy and Troas Region (partly Biga Peninsula) to give information about the history of excavation and research.
Week 5 - Theoretical
Assessment of the Early Bronze Age levels of Troy.
Week 6 - Theoretical
Assessment of the Middle Bronze Age levels of Troy..
Week 7 - Theoretical
Assessment of the Late Bronze Age levels of Troy.
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Mid-term –exam.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Transition to Iron Age and Iron Age settlements at Troy.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Contribution to the research and excavation of Troy of the Aegean Archaeology.
Week 11 - Theoretical
The contribution of the Aegean Archaeology for Early Bronze Age culture of Troy.
Week 12 - Theoretical
The contribution of the Aegean Archaeology for Middle Bronze Age culture of Troy.
Week 13 - Theoretical
The contribution of the Aegean Archaeology for Late Bronze Age culture of Troy..
Week 14 - Theoretical
Troy and the Aegean Islands.
Week 15 - Theoretical
General assessment.
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
Assignment40416
Reading121236
Midterm Examination1718
Final Examination1819
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
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