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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Associate Professor A Sagona.
Prerequisite: Any two Arts subjects or permission of the Head of the Department.
Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week, or equivalent.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
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.
Content:
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.
Assessment:
3,000 words of written work (50 per cent) and a 2-hour examination (50 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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