Information Package / Course Catalogue
The Textile Industry in the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Ages in Anatolia
Course Code: ARKE642
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

The course aims to give students an understanding of the importance of production processes and methods of analysis of weaving production in ancient Anatolian societies.

Course Content

This course will present and explore contemporary archaeological and historical international research into ancient fashion, textile production and consumption throughout the Anatolian basin. Current research in the field is undertaken by archaeologists, historians and scientists from a range of countries who cooperate to analyse archaeological textile remains in conjunction with the written sources and images of dress and textile tools at our disposal.

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Learning Outcomes
1.Understand ancient textiles, their production, functionality and significance in ancient technology, religion and society
2.Acquire practical skills in ancient textile production techniques
3.to observe using of textile fibres in Anatolian Prehistoric and Protohistoric Ages.
4.to analyze and criticaly evaluate the features of textile fragments which found in excavations .
5.to determine the features of depiction of dresses in Ancient Anatolian arts.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.M. Özdoğan - N. Başgelen, Anadolu’da Uygarlığın Doğuşu ve Avrupa’ya Yayılımı, Türkiye’de Neolitik Dönem, Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, 2007.
2.T. Özgüç, Ön Tarih’te Anadolu’da Ölü Gömme Adetleri, 1948.
3.I. Hodder, Çatalhöyük, 2006
4.R. Duru, Burdur-Antalya Bölgesi’nin Altıbin Yılı, 2008
5.E. Schmidt, The Alishar Hüyük, Seasons of 1928 and 1929, Part I, 1932.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The economic order and the system of prehistoric settlements in Anatolia
Week 2 - Theoretical
Textile finds from Prehistoric settlement in Anatolia and methods of analyses of ancient textiles
Week 3 - Theoretical
Neolithic settlements in Anatolia and their sources of production.
Week 4 - Theoretical
Weaving tools, prints, and yarn, fibre /textile fragments.
Week 5 - Theoretical
New settlements and economic policies was designed to creat economic growth and development in Anatolia at Chalcolitic Period
Week 6 - Theoretical
Evaluation of weaving tools was found in settlements, and analysis of these settlements plan; weaving workshops
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
MIDTERM EXAM
Week 9 - Theoretical
Urban politics in the Early Bronze Age of Anatolia, new administration concepts and change of economic and trade structure.
Week 10 - Theoretical
Evaluation of weaving tools was found in settlements, and analysis of these settlements plan. Determination of the economic potential of textile industry in Anatolia at Early Bronze Age
Week 11 - Theoretical
Textile tools as grave gift, and analysis technic of textile fragments from graves of Early Bronze Age period. Analyzes of grave clothes fragments.
Week 12 - Theoretical
Trade between Anatolia and Mesopotamia, Anatolia and east mediternean and importance of weaving production, weaving tools, depicted clothes on arts of Anatolia in the Assyrian Trade Colony Period.
Week 13 - Theoretical
Textile production in Hittite Period of Anatolia.
Week 14 - Theoretical
Anatolia settlements in 1st millennium B.C.
Week 15 - Theoretical
Finds about textiles production in the first half of the 1st millennium B.C.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory140342
Assignment50525
Reading140342
Midterm Examination1516
Final Examination19110
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026