PAPVA_31 Chalkolithic of the Near East

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. Susan Pollock, PhD. (seminar tutor), Mgr. Inna Mateiciucová, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Zdeněk Měřínský, CSc.
Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Katarína Válová
Timetable
Mon 4. 4. 10:00–12:25 C.118, Tue 5. 4. 10:00–12:25 C.118, Wed 6. 4. 10:00–12:25 C.118, Thu 7. 4. 11:30–13:30 C.118, Mon 11. 4. 10:00–12:25 C.118, Tue 12. 4. 9:30–11:00 C.118, Wed 13. 4. 10:00–12:25 C.118, Thu 14. 4. 11:30–13:30 C.118
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives (in Czech)
The Chalcolithic Period in Mesopotamia
Syllabus (in Czech)
List of topics • Mesopotamia: Ubaid period: culture-historical overview • Mesopotamia: Ubaid period: politically and socially egalitarian or hierarchical? • Mesopotamia: Ubaid period: localized economies and inter-regional interactions • Mesopotamia: Uruk period: culture-historical overview • Mesopotamia: Uruk period: tributary economies, specialization, and the growth of dependent labor • Mesopotamia: Uruk period: ‘Uruk expansion’ and long-distance exchange • Levant: Chalcolithic: culture-historical overview • Levant: Chalcolithic: growth of metallurgy • Levant: Chalcolithic: cult, sanctuaries, and hoards • Recording, accounting, and the invention of writing • The representation of people in durable media: figurines, stelae, and seals • Religion and ritual: architecture, image, and practice • The growth of dependency: class and gender
Literature
  • Henrickson, Elizabeth und Ingolf Thuesen (Hrsg.) (1989) Upon This Foundation - the 'Ubaid Reconsidered, Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications 10.
  • Bernbeck, Reinhard (2009) Class Conflict in Ancient Mesopotamia: Between Knowledge of History and Historicising Knowledge. Anthropology of the Middle East 4: 33-64.
  • Rothman, Mitchell (ed.) (2001) Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors: Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation. Santa Fe: School of American Research.
  • Kerner, Susanne (2001) Das Chalkolithikum in der südlichen Levante. Die Entwicklung handwerklicher Spezialisierung und ihre Beziehung zu gesellschaftlicher Komplexität. Rahden: Leidorf.
  • Bernbeck, Reinhard (1995) Die ‘Obed-Zeit: Religiöse Gerontokratien oder Häuptlingstümer? In Zwischen Euphrat und Indus: Aktuelle Forschungsprobleme in der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, K. Bartl, R. Bernbeck, und M. Heinz (eds.), pp. 44-56. Hildesheim: G
  • Stein, Gil und Rana Özbal (2007) A Tale of Two Oikumenai: Variation in the Expansionary Dynamics of ‘Ubaid and Uruk Mesopotamia. In Settlement and Society: Ecology, Urbanism, Trade and Technology in Mesopotamia and Beyond (Robert McC. Adams Festschrift)
  • Levy, Thomas (1995) Cult, Metallurgy and Rank Societies – Chalcolithic Period (ca. 4500-3500 BCE). In the Archaeology of Society in the Holy Land, Thomas Levy (ed.), pp. 226-243. London: Leicester Press.
  • Algaze, Guillermo (1993) The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Algaze, Guillermo (2008) Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Lands
  • Stein, Gil (1994) Economy, ritual, and power in ‘Ubaid Mesopotamia. In Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East, Gil Stein and Mitchell Rothman (eds.), pp. 35-46. Madison: Prehistory Press.
  • Butterlin, Pascal (2003) Les temps proto-urbains de Mésopotamie: Contacts et acculturation à l’époque d’Uruk au Moyen-Orient. Paris: CNRS Editions.
  • Wright, Henry (1994 [1983]) Prestate Political Formations. In Chiefdoms and Early States in the Near East: The Organizational Dynamics of Complexity, G. Stein und M. Rothman (eds.), pp. 67-84. Madison: Prehistory Press.
  • Englund, Robert (1998) Texts from the Late Uruk Period. In Mesopotamien: Späturuk-Zeit und Frühdynastische Zeit, Josef Bauer, Robert Englund, and Manfred Krebernik, pp. 15-233. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 160/1. Freiburg: Universitätsverlag.
  • Carter, Robert A. and Graham Philip (eds.) (in press) Beyond the Ubaid: Transformation and Integration in the Late Prehistoric Societies of the Middle East, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chica
  • Hole, Frank (1983) Symbols of Religion and Social Organization at Susa. In The Hilly Flanks and Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory of Southwestern Asia, T. C. Young Jr., P. E. Smith, and P. Mortensen (eds.), pp. 315-33. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civili
  • Wright, Henry (1998) Uruk States in Southwestern Iran. In Archaic States, Gary Feinman and Joyce Marcus (eds.), pp. 173-197. Santa Fe: School of American Research.
  • Pollock, Susan (1992) Bureaucrats and Managers, Peasants and Pastoralists, Imperialists and Traders: Research on the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr Periods in Mesopotamia. Journal of World Prehistory 6(3):297-336.
  • Pollock, Susan (1999) Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. Cambridge University Press.
  • Nissen, Hans (1988) The Early History of the Ancient Near East, 9000-2000 B.C. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
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