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FACULTY OF LETTERS - ARCHAEOLOGY - ARK245 - Funeral Rites in Anatolia I

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Faculty Name:

FACULTY OF LETTERS

Section Name:

ARCHAEOLOGY

Teaching Level Name:

Under Graduate

Course Name:

Funeral Rites in Anatolia I

Lesson Code:

ARK245

Period:

Theoric:

Practice:

Laboratory:

Credit:

2.0

Ects Credits:

3.0

Course Type Name:

Elective

Course Language:

Turkish

Course Coordinator:

Head of Department

Teaching Staff:

Ass. Prof. BAŞAK BOZ

Assistants:

The Aim of the course:

The goals of the course is that provide understanding the importance of burial practices in research of archaeological communities. Showing that studying burial practices of ancient societies might shed light on their view of the death, rituals and belief systems. Using the new theories and methodologies in the research of burial practices.

Course Content:

Concept of death, Tanatology and Archaeotanatology Description of concepts related to death: Afterlife, Spirit, Religion, Concept of God, forms of burial. Intramural and extramural burial forms, body positions. Grave types, distribution in Anatolia through time. Grave contents and their possible meanings. Change in grave goods through time. Burial practices in Neolithic period: Çatalhöyük case. The definition and charecteristics of primary and secondary burials. Evaluation of grave goods in relation to skeletons. Determination of grave structure according to the position of the skeleton (void/filled space). Paleopathology and grave archaeology. Secondary and multiple burials, determination of individuals. What is cannibalism? Archeological indications of cannibalism. Theoretical approaches to archaeology of death. Social Archaeology and a case study.

Course Source:

Course Source Recommended:

1- Atakuman, Ç., M. Karakoç, H.C. Gemici 2019. “Ölüyü Gömmek yada gömmememk: Plaeoliytik çağ’da Bedenin Nesnelliği ve mekansallığı” . Arkeoloji’de Ritüel ve Toplum (ed). Ç. Atakuman. Tematik Arkeoloji Serisi 5. Ege yayınları, İstanbul.
2- Boz, B & Hager, L.D., 2013. Living Above the Dead: Intramural Burial Practices at Çatalhöyük. Humans and Landscapes of Çatalhöyük: Reports from the 2000-2008 Seasons. Vol. 8 Chapter 19:413-440. Institute of Archaeology. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press.
3- Boz, B. and Hager L. D., 2014. “Making sense of social behavior from disturbed and commingled skeletons: a case study from Çatalhöyük, Turkey”. In commingled and disarticulated human remains: working toward improved theory, method and data. Eds. A. Osterholtz, K. Baustian and D. Martin, Springer.
4- Duday, H. 2009. The archaeology of the dead. Oxbow books, Oxford.
5- Durgun, P., 2019. “ Erken Tunç Batı ve Orta Anadolu’da yerleşim dışı mezarlıkların ortaya çıkışı ve ölü gömme adetleri” Momento Mori-Ölüm ve ölüm uygulamaları (ed). A.M. Büyükkarakaya- E.B. Aksoy. Ege Yayınları, İstanbul.
6- Gowland, R. and Knüsel, C., 2006. Introduction: ix-xiv Social Archaeology of Funerary remains. (eds) Gowland, R., &C. Knüsel. Oxbow boks, Oxford.
7- Ingman, T., R. Özbal 2019. Ölüm arkeolojisinde kuramsal yaklaşımlar 63-90. Momento Mori-Ölüm ve ölüm uygulamaları (ed). A.M. Büyükkarakaya- E.B. Aksoy. Ege Yayınları, İstanbul.
8- Knüsel, C., & Quatrum K., 2006. “Fragmentation of the body: comestibles, compost, or costumary rite?” Social Archaeology of Funerary remains. (eds) Gowland, R. & C. Knüsel. Oxbow boks, Oxford.
9- Lihter, C., 2016. Burial customs of the Neolithic in Anatolia - An overview. In: Ü. Yalçın (ed.), Anatolian Metal VII Anatolien und seine Nachbarn vor 10.000 Jahren Anatolia and neighbours 10.000 years ago (zugl. Der Anschnitt Beiheft 31 = Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbaumuseum Bochum 214) 71–83.
10- Özbudun, S., 2019. ““Var git Ölüm”: Ölüm ritüellerine Antropolojik bir bakış”. Momento Mori-Ölüm ve ölüm uygulamaları (ed). A.M. Büyükkarakaya- E.B. Aksoy. Ege Yayınları, İstanbul.

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