16.7 2nd and 3rd years Associate Professor A Sagona. Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department. Second semester Two lectures and a tutorial a week, or equivalent. Students on completion of the subject should have acquired a knowledge of the social, political and cultural development of ancient Western Asia in regions other than Syria and Mesopotamia from about 3600 to 330 B. C. ; have developed a knowledge of archaeological methods to study processes of cultural change and interaction. An introduction to the material culture of the ancient lands of Anatolia, Iran, the Persian Gulf region, Pakistan and India, and Cyprus - the lands surrounding the Syro-Mesopotamian region. The subject will be set within a rigorous theoretical and methodological framework. 3,000 words of written work (50 per cent) and a 2-hour examination (50 per cent). C Renfrew and P Bahn Archaeology: Theory, Methods and Practice London 1991 E Carter and H Stolper Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology Berkeley 1984 B and R Allchin, The Rise of Civilisation in India and Pakistan Cambridge 1982 (Most of the reading consists of articles)