AAMW 205
Mediterranean Archaeology: An Introduction
Prof. Thomas
Tartaron
Many of the world’s great ancient civilizations flourished on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea: the Egyptians, the Minoans and Mycenaeans, the Greeks and Romans, just to name a few. In this course, we will focus on the ways that archaeologists recover and interpret the material traces of the past, working alongside natural scientists, historians and art historians, epigraphers and philologists, and many others. Archaeological sites and themes from over 2000 years of Mediterranean history will be presented. This course is a non-technical introduction that assumes no prior knowledge of archaeology.
AAMW 220
Introduction to Greek Art
Prof. Ann Kuttner
AAMW 217
Introduction To Islamic Art
Prof. Renata
Holod
AAMW 301
Roman Bathing
Prof. Lothar
Haselberger
AAMW 301
Augustan Cultural Revolution
Prof. Ann Kuttner
AAMW 301
Historic Building Technology (Ancient Greek-Medieval)
Prof. Robert Ousterhout
NELC 468
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Prof. David P.
Silverman
AAMW 500
Minoan Luxury Items
Dr. Elizabeth
Shank
ANCH 535.401
Problems in Greek History
Prof. Jeremy
McInerney
AAMW 531
Anatolia, Etruria, and Greece
Prof. A. Brownlee, Prof. B. Rose, and Dr. J. Turfa
An intensive examination of central and eastern Mediterranean art and archaeology during the Geometric, Archaic, and Classical periods, with a focus on Etruria, Phoenicia, Greece, and Anatolia. The emphasis will be on cross-cultural contacts, with topics that include funerary customs, trade and shipwrecks, and sacred architecture/religion, among others. Students will make extensive use of the collections in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
AAMW 614
Archaeology of the Northeastern Peloponnesos
Prof. James Wright, Bryn Mawr College
Prof. Thomas Tartaron, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday 4:30-7:30pm
Cohen Hall 337
University of Pennsylvania
(note: meetings will be held at Bryn Mawr in the second half of the semester)
This seminar is an intensive examination of the prehistory and protohistory of the northeastern Peloponnesos in Greece, including the Corinthia, the Argolid, and the southern Argolid, from the Early Bronze Age to the 8th century BC. The course will examine the interplay of the longue durée and historical contingency in the structural imperatives of agropastoralism, the oscillation between nucleation and dispersal, the emergence of phenomena such as the Early Bronze Age corridor houses and the Mycenaean palace states, and other topics. Emphasis is placed on critical reading of source data (excavations, surveys, environmental) and comparative approaches.
AAMW 660
Theories of Historic Preservation
Prof. Frank
Matero
AAMW 557
Archaeological Theory and Method
Prof. Clark
Erickson
AAMW 606
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Prof. Robert
Preucel
AAMW 702
Greek Sanctuaries
Prof. David Gilman Romano
What are Greek sanctuaries and what do they look like? How did they begin in the Greek world? Where are they found? As the physical manifestation of Greek religion, Greek sanctuaries played an important role in Greek society and Greek history. What were the activities that took place in Greek sanctuaries? How were Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries different from local sanctuaries? How did Greek sanctuaries change over time and how did they come to an end? This course discusses the makeup of different kinds of Greek sanctuaries: urban, rural and mountain-top, and it discusses the activities that took place there, procession, sacrifice, feasting and competition, and will focus on a few representative examples of Greek sanctuaries including the current Penn project at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia. The course will be taught as a seminar. Student participation will include oral reports and a research paper.
