Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / ARKD-613 - ARKEOLOJİ (DOKTORA)

Code: ARKD-613 Course Title: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS AND FORMATIONS IN ANATOLIA IN THE CHAL Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 3rd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department ARKEOLOJİ (DOKTORA)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer TAYFUN CAYMAZ (tayfuncaymaz@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) TAYFUN CAYMAZ,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Learns the cultural development and formations of Anatolia in the Chalcolithic Age. PO-1 Be able to conduct and present detailed research in accordance with scientific norms on a specific subject related to the field.
PO-2 Can approach analytically the problems encountered in practice and theoretical work.
PO-3 He/she can have expert knowledge on a specific subject related to his/her field.
PO-4 It can teach the knowledge and skills acquired in the field.
Presentation
LO-2 Learning the Anatolian Chalcolithic Age chronology. PO-1 Be able to conduct and present detailed research in accordance with scientific norms on a specific subject related to the field.
PO-2 Can approach analytically the problems encountered in practice and theoretical work.
PO-3 He/she can have expert knowledge on a specific subject related to his/her field.
PO-4 It can teach the knowledge and skills acquired in the field.
Presentation
LO-3 Gains knowledge about the Chalcolithic Age ceramic culture. PO-13 Able to work in a disciplinary and interdisciplinary team.
PO-14 Being aware of the necessity of following the current developments in the field, they can acquire the habit of browsing Turkish and foreign languages ​​(library and informatics), using them and learning lifelong.
PO-15 May have a sense of professional and ethical responsibility.
PO-16 May have the ability to work individually and make independent decisions in the solution of archaeological problems.
Presentation
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Lecture. The Aşağıpınar V-I process in Thrace. Parallels with Vinça A and Karanovo III cultures. Balkan-Anatolian relations in the 6th millennium BC.
2 Lecture. Developments in Eastern Marmara after Ilıpınar VIII. Agricultural community with a new pottery culture in the middle of the 6th millennium BC. Parallels with Balkan cultures.
3 Lecture. The emergence of communities with different cultures after the end of Neolithic settlements in Central Western Anatolia. Ceramics in Ulucak III, Ege Gübre II and Çine-Tepecik IV layers showing similarities with Ilıpınar VB.
4 Lecture In the period following Ulucak III in Central Western Anatolia, traditionalization in terms of surface treatment and some typical forms in pottery culture. The spread of Chalcolithic communities throughout Western Anatolia. Beşik-Sivritepe, Kumtepe IA in the northwest, Çakallar, Asopos in the Midwest, Karain, Tlos in the southwest.
5 Lecture Dark-faced Gelveri pottery in Central Anatolia. Insufficient data on developments in the 2nd and 3rd quarters of the 6th millennium BC. Güvercinkayası culture between 5200-4800 BC.
6 Lecture Mesopotamian cultural influences in the 6th and 5th millennium BC in Çukurova, Antakya and Mara regions in Southern Anatolia.
7 mid-term exam
8 Lecture The increase of Chalcolithic settlements in the western Anatolian coastal region towards the middle of the 5th millennium BC. Pottery culture characterized by basket-handled vessels. Specialized placements. Communities that extract mercury in Çakmaktepe and manufacture marble idols and vessels in Kulaksızlar. The cult system that finds expression in Kilya-type idols.
9 Lecture Parallel developments with the mainland in the Eastern Aegean islands in the 5th millennium BC. Emporio X-VIII in Chios, Tigani II-III in Samos, Uğurlu in Gökçeada.
10 Lecture Cultural developments parallel to Mesopotamia in the 6th and 5th centuries BC in Southeastern Anatolia. Local character and the role of external influences. Cultural structure of the region during the Hassuna, Halaf, Samarra and Ubaid periods. The spread of Mesopotamian cultural influences to Eastern and Central Anatolia. Post-Ubaid settlement at Güvercinkayası.
11 Lecture The influence of Uruk culture in the 4th millennium BC in Southeastern Anatolia. The spread of this effect to the north of the Taurus Mountains. Similar effects in Çukurova. Data scarcity in Central Anatolia.
12 Lecture Insufficient data for the 6th-5th millennium BC in the Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia regions. The pottery culture associated with the Balkans in the Samsun region at the end of the 4th millennium BC.
13 Lecture General evaluation. Comparison of cultural developments in the vast Anatolian geography in the long period from about 5700 BC to the end of the 4th millennium BC. The degree and scope of the relations of the regions with each other. Regional development differences
14 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 John Garstang, (1953), Prehistoric Mersin, Oxford
2 Hetty Goldman, (1956), Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus, New Jersey.
3 Robert J.Braidwood and Linda S.Braidwood, (1960), Excavations in the Plain of Antioch. I: The Earlier Assemblages Phases A-J, Chicago.
4 Tayfun Caymaz, (2013), Yeni Veriler Işığında Orta Batı Anadolu Kalkolitik Çağ Kültürü”, Arkeoloji Dergisi, XVIII, 39-112.
5 Necmi Karul, Zeynep Eres, Mehmet Özdoğan und Hermann Parzinger, (2003), Aşağı Pınar I, Mainz am Rhein.
6 Sevil Gülçur, (1997), “Güvercinkayası Kazısı ve Çevre Araştırmaları”, Arkeoloji ve Sanat, 78, 2-24.
7 Jacob Roodenberg and Songül Alpaslan Roodenberg, (2008), The Ilıpınar Excavations, Vol.III, Belgium.
8 Turan Efe, (2001), Orman Fidanlığı, İstanbul.
9 Turan Takaoğlu, (2006), “The Late Neolithic in the Eastern Aegean, Excavation at Gülpınar in the Troad”, Hesperia, 75, pp. 289-315.
10 Rafet Dinç, (1996), “1994 Yılı Akhisar-Kulaksızlar Mermer Atölyesi Yüzey Araştırması”, XIII.Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı, Vol. 2, pp. 11-31.
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 50
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation 3-15
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 50

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 7 7 49
       b) Search in internet/Library 7 7 49
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 1 14 14
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 4 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 4 12
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 180