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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES - ARCHAEOLOGY - ARK738 - ARCHAEOTHANATOLOGY II

Course Information

Faculty Name:

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Section Name:

ARCHAEOLOGY

Teaching Level Name:

Masters

Course Name:

ARCHAEOTHANATOLOGY II

Lesson Code:

ARK738

Period:

General

Theoric:

Practice:

Laboratory:

Credit:

3.0

Ects Credits:

6.0

Course Type Name:

Elective

Course Language:

Turkish

Course Coordinator:

Head of Department

Teaching Staff:

Ass. Prof. BAŞAK BOZ

Assistants:

The Aim of the course:

Death is a universal human experience but the responses to death have great variety over time and across the world. People have buried their dead in different ways accompanied with grave goods or not. Some societies cremated their dead or exposed or eaten. How can we make sense of this diversity? This course aims to introduce the students different aspects of burial archaeology, from the basic knowledge of human bone to the challenges in reconstructing the believes of the community from funerary evidence.

Course Content:

Group discussions on specific topics to develop academic skills, short seminars constitute the method of course. Burial traditions will be kept under review from the Neolithic period until the beginning of the 20th Century within a time period.

Course Source:

Course Source Recommended:

Kroeber, Alfred L.1927 Disposal of the dead. American Anthropologist 29:308-315
Childe, V. Gordon1945 Directional changes in funerary practices during 50,000 years. Man 45:13-19.
Binford, Lewis R.1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity 28(2):217-225. X
Ucko, Peter 1969 Ethnography and archaeological interpretation of funerary remains. World Archaeology 1: 262-80.
Chapman, Robert, and Klavs Randsborg 1981 Approaches to the archaeology of death. In The Archaeology of Death, edited by Robert Chapman, I. Kinnes, and Klavs Randsborg, pp. 1-24. Cambridge University Press.

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