The documentary movie called 'A Legend of the Toros Mountains; Karatepe-Aslantaş' was screened on 13th of October 2008, on Monday, in GKM Ayhan Şahenk Hall.
The film recounts the discovery of the site of a late Hittite fortress city, built by King Asativatas, and discovered in 1946, near Adana, at Karatepe (Black Hill). The bilingual inscriptions in Phoenician and Luwian carved into statues and the stone walls of the fort at the Karatepe site - known today as Aslantaş (Lion Stone) - provided the key to decipher the Hittite Luwian hieroglyphs. A discussion session titled, "A Pillar of Turkish Archeology: Halet Çambel," conducted by Prof. Ufuk Esin, member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences and Prof. Mehmet Özdoğan, from the Department of Archeology at Istanbul University, will follow the screening.
The film retraces the great efforts and sacrifices of the research team at Karatepe-Aslanbaş and documents the groundbreaking work in stone monument restoration led by Prof. Halet Çambel, and the foundation of the first open-air museum in Turkey.
Based on the excavation and preservation of the late-Hittite site of Aslantas, which is highly important for the visual and epigraphic material, the movie is worth to see and discuss for later sessions.
14 Ekim 2008 Salı
2nd ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear all,
Our team is not in charge to provide the right edition of the course book to be sold by any photocopy shop around the university.
Our team is not in charge to provide the right edition of the course book to be sold by any photocopy shop around the university.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR READINGS
Dear all,
Because of the funeral, Ms. Ozyar could not attend her lecture on Monday. However, she will be continuing her lectures on Wednesday. For the readings, therefore, you are not responsible from the Week III's primary source on 'The Greeks in Egypt, Nubia and Scythia' from Histories, by Heredotos for this week.
Because of the funeral, Ms. Ozyar could not attend her lecture on Monday. However, she will be continuing her lectures on Wednesday. For the readings, therefore, you are not responsible from the Week III's primary source on 'The Greeks in Egypt, Nubia and Scythia' from Histories, by Heredotos for this week.
9 Ekim 2008 Perşembe
2nd MOVIE
"Baraka" will be shown
on 17th of October, 08, Friday
at 17:oo in GKM Ayhan Şahenk Hall
Plot for summary:
Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.
If you miss this screening, you may also borrow the film from the Mithat Alam Film Center.
on 17th of October, 08, Friday
at 17:oo in GKM Ayhan Şahenk Hall
Plot for summary:
Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.
If you miss this screening, you may also borrow the film from the Mithat Alam Film Center.
08/10/08- The Pharaonic Kingdom and the Nile
HIST 105 FALL 2008
08/10/08- Lecture-3
Egypt:
The Pharaonic Kingdom and the Nile
Fertile Crescent:
1.Early villages of foragers
2.Agriculture: dry farming
3.EarlyUrban Centers: Irrigation agriculture, full-time craft specialization
System of ‘nomes’:
(Greek nomos=district, province)
Villages, royal estates and small towns grouped together into regional administrative units under the control of a local governor.
Artbitrary divisions.
A= White Crown of Upper Egypt
B= Red Crown of Sais and Butto (Lower Egypt)
C= Combination Crown to signify rule over entire territory
Mesopt. And Egyptian Chronology (ca./B.C.)
Mesopotamian Chronology:
• Late Uruk Period 3300-3000
• Early Dynastic Period 2900-2300
Egyptian Chronology:
• Predynastic (c. 4650-3150)
• Early Dynastic Period 1+2 (3050-2686)
• Old Kingdom Dynasties 3-6 (c.2686-2181)
08/10/08- Lecture-3
Egypt:
The Pharaonic Kingdom and the Nile
Fertile Crescent:
1.Early villages of foragers
2.Agriculture: dry farming
3.EarlyUrban Centers: Irrigation agriculture, full-time craft specialization
System of ‘nomes’:
(Greek nomos=district, province)
Villages, royal estates and small towns grouped together into regional administrative units under the control of a local governor.
Artbitrary divisions.
A= White Crown of Upper Egypt
B= Red Crown of Sais and Butto (Lower Egypt)
C= Combination Crown to signify rule over entire territory
Mesopt. And Egyptian Chronology (ca./B.C.)
Mesopotamian Chronology:
• Late Uruk Period 3300-3000
• Early Dynastic Period 2900-2300
Egyptian Chronology:
• Predynastic (c. 4650-3150)
• Early Dynastic Period 1+2 (3050-2686)
• Old Kingdom Dynasties 3-6 (c.2686-2181)
06/10/08- The Rise of Civilization
HIST 105 FALL 2008
06/10/08- Lecture-2
FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY 2
The Rise of Civilization:
Early Urban Centers of the Ancient Near East
Terminology:
• Subsistence
• Surplus
• Alluvial plains
• Craft specialization
• Social complexity
• Pristine civilizations
• Uruk
• Wheel-made pottery
Fact:
Establishment of First Villages and Agricultural Transformation
. Where do we find early villages ? Why ?
. What is the next step? How are agricultural villages able to spread beyond their ‘ecological’ niche?
. Where do we begin to see villages from the 6th millennium onwards?
Settlement in Mesopotamia:
• Alluvial Plains created by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers = Mesopotamia (modern term)
• village type of settlements begin here in the course of the 6th millennium (irrigation)
• Settlement pattern studies
• in the course of the 4th millennium development of one major urban scale center: the city of URUK (Warka in modern Arabic, Erech in the Old Testament)
How do we define an urban center?
Following Criteria derived from G. Childe’s proposal
• Size of settlements
• Full-time specialization of labor
• Economic surplus
• Monumental public works
• Long-distance trade
• Institutionalization of religion
• Emergence of writing
Early Dynastic Political Discourse:
City-state: central town+villages in hinterland (r= ca. 15 km)
Two types of land-use:
1. cultivated land=irrigated
2. Pasture land,hunting area
Population growth+dryer climate=stress
Competition for land!! New concept leads to organized warfare
Mesopotamian ideology about cities:
06/10/08- Lecture-2
FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY 2
The Rise of Civilization:
Early Urban Centers of the Ancient Near East
Terminology:
• Subsistence
• Surplus
• Alluvial plains
• Craft specialization
• Social complexity
• Pristine civilizations
• Uruk
• Wheel-made pottery
Fact:
Establishment of First Villages and Agricultural Transformation
. Where do we find early villages ? Why ?
. What is the next step? How are agricultural villages able to spread beyond their ‘ecological’ niche?
. Where do we begin to see villages from the 6th millennium onwards?
Settlement in Mesopotamia:
• Alluvial Plains created by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers = Mesopotamia (modern term)
• village type of settlements begin here in the course of the 6th millennium (irrigation)
• Settlement pattern studies
• in the course of the 4th millennium development of one major urban scale center: the city of URUK (Warka in modern Arabic, Erech in the Old Testament)
How do we define an urban center?
Following Criteria derived from G. Childe’s proposal
• Size of settlements
• Full-time specialization of labor
• Economic surplus
• Monumental public works
• Long-distance trade
• Institutionalization of religion
• Emergence of writing
Early Dynastic Political Discourse:
City-state: central town+villages in hinterland (r= ca. 15 km)
Two types of land-use:
1. cultivated land=irrigated
2. Pasture land,hunting area
Population growth+dryer climate=stress
Competition for land!! New concept leads to organized warfare
Mesopotamian ideology about cities:
- Cities built for specific Deities
- Deities live in a world parallel to humans
- Temples are divine households
- Temple administration=urban elite=owns land
- Private land ownership on a small scale also exists however.
- Economy organized in households Divine and private.
7 Ekim 2008 Salı
26/09/08- Agricultural Transformation and First Permanent Settlements
HIST 105 FALL 2008
26/09/08- Lecture-1
FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY 1:
Agricultural Transformation and First Permanent Settlements
Terminology:
. Hominidae
. Homo Sapiens
. Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic
. Neo-graecizing terms
. World wide Climate Change
. Quaternary, Pleistocene, Holocene
. Mobile Hunters and Gatherers
. Agriculture, Domesticated species
. Permanent settlements=villages
. Çayönü
. Nevali Çori
. Göbekli Tepe
Time Frame:
. Duration of hominid existence on our planet?
. Location of earliest existence?
. When do hominids begin to spread?
. When and where do we have traces for early hominids in Turkey?
Traditional Terminology for Chronology:
. Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
. Neolithic (New Stone Age)
. Chalcolithic (Copper/Stone Age)
. Bronze Age
. Iron Age
. So called Three Age System Developed by C. Thomsen to classify collections in the National Museum of Denmark in early 19th c. (1816-19)
. What are the problems?
Alternative Terminology:
World Wide Climate Chage
. Quaternary Period: 4th geological in the history of the planet which includes both climatic periods below
. Pleistocene (1.6 million- 10 B.P.) Great Ice Age
. Holocene (10.000 B.P.- present) Post- Glacial Period
Location:
Ancient Near East
. Why do we begin our survey in the so-called ANE or Southwestern Asia?
. Two developments in the history of human record that proved irreversible observed in this region earliest in date.
Agriculture and Permanent Settlenments:
. Agriculture refers to the domestication of selected plant and animal species in answer to human needs
. Why? How? Where?
. How can we tell?
. Man has always built shelters to protect from the elements. Permanent settlements refer to man building shelters which are used all year around and over generations
. Beginning of agriculture.
26/09/08- Lecture-1
FROM PREHISTORY TO HISTORY 1:
Agricultural Transformation and First Permanent Settlements
Terminology:
. Hominidae
. Homo Sapiens
. Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic
. Neo-graecizing terms
. World wide Climate Change
. Quaternary, Pleistocene, Holocene
. Mobile Hunters and Gatherers
. Agriculture, Domesticated species
. Permanent settlements=villages
. Çayönü
. Nevali Çori
. Göbekli Tepe
Time Frame:
. Duration of hominid existence on our planet?
. Location of earliest existence?
. When do hominids begin to spread?
. When and where do we have traces for early hominids in Turkey?
Traditional Terminology for Chronology:
. Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
. Neolithic (New Stone Age)
. Chalcolithic (Copper/Stone Age)
. Bronze Age
. Iron Age
. So called Three Age System Developed by C. Thomsen to classify collections in the National Museum of Denmark in early 19th c. (1816-19)
. What are the problems?
Alternative Terminology:
World Wide Climate Chage
. Quaternary Period: 4th geological in the history of the planet which includes both climatic periods below
. Pleistocene (1.6 million- 10 B.P.) Great Ice Age
. Holocene (10.000 B.P.- present) Post- Glacial Period
Location:
Ancient Near East
. Why do we begin our survey in the so-called ANE or Southwestern Asia?
. Two developments in the history of human record that proved irreversible observed in this region earliest in date.
Agriculture and Permanent Settlenments:
. Agriculture refers to the domestication of selected plant and animal species in answer to human needs
. Why? How? Where?
. How can we tell?
. Man has always built shelters to protect from the elements. Permanent settlements refer to man building shelters which are used all year around and over generations
. Beginning of agriculture.
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