TORS OLD, A Comparative Introduction to Ancient Civilizations
Course content
The course gives a brief introduction into the history of each of the areas and then presents multifaceted processes in a comparative way. The geographical areas involved all saw the invention of agriculture and the development of complex societies. The topics introduced will include domestication of crops and animals,urbanism with city-planning and monumental architecture, the different forms of political and social organization, trade-systems and economies, religion and worldview, writing and visual culture.
The course is connected for each topic/fag to a different course in the curriculum, and the exam form will depend on the connected course.
BA-students inscribed at Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, American Indian Languages and Cultures.
Kurset skal samlæses med:
Indiansk
Det vestlige Mesoamerika
Assyriologi:
Samfund A
Nærorientalsk arkæologi:
Tilgange til arkæologi
Ægyptologi:
Oldægyptisk kultur A
Lectures by teacher and discussions by students
Bruce Trigger. 2003. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); Michael E. Smith (ed.). 2011. The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); Norman Yoffee 2005. Myth of the Archaic State (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge); David R. Harris (ed.). 1996. The origins and spread of agriculture and pastoralism in Eurasia (UCL Press, London); Bellwood, Peter, and Colin Renfrew, eds. 2002. Examining the farming/ language dispersal hypothesis (Mc-Donald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge), more to follow on absalon.
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Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- HOLD0001FU
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- Programme level
- Bachelor
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
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- Studyboard
- Study Board of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Contracting department
- Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
Course Coordinator
- Tobias Richter (7-766d676c786976446c7971326f7932686f)
Teacher
Scott Haddow scott.haddow@hum.ku.dk, Seriana Nett, seraina.nett@hum.ku.dk, Frederik Hagen hagen@hum.ku.dk, Christophe Helmke, cgbh@hum.ku.dk
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