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Aegean MA Outline UCL-INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY ARCL0135 Aegean Prehistory: major themes and current debates 2019-20: Term II MA Option Module (15 credits) Co-ordinator: Todd Whitelaw [email protected] Office 207, Tel 020 7679 7534 Office hours: stop-in if door is open, or e-mail to arrange an appointment. Seminars: Fridays 11:00-13:00 (Room 410). Lectures (optional): Fridays 14:00-16:00 (Birkbeck 43 Gordon Sq, Room G02) Deadlines for coursework: essay 1: 9/03/20; essay 2: 1/05/20. Target dates for return of marked coursework: 27/03/20, 29/05/20. Please see the last page of this document for important information about coursework submission and marking procedures, and links to the relevant webpages. 1. Overview Short description This module provides selective thematic coverage of the Bronze Age Aegean, c. 3000-1100 BC. Structured around student interests, this year will focus on the southern Aegean across the entire timespan, with consideration of its Mediterranean context, with some emphasis toward the earlier Bronze Age. Drawing on the region’s exceptional wealth of archaeological data, and set within a theoretically informed, problem- oriented framework, the module explores alternative perspectives and aims to introduce students to current interpretations, debates and avenues for future research. It locates prehistoric Aegean societies relative to contemporary Mediterranean and Near Eastern societies, generating links between traditionally separate fields. Themes of recurrent importance include social, political and economic structures, the significance of material culture, local and longer-range interaction, the archaeologies of ideology, power and death, and the integration of textual evidence with material data. Week-by-week summary of seminar topics Week Date Session Subject 1 17/01 Seminar 1. Introduction: module management, scope of module; changing perspectives in Aegean Prehistory. 17/01 Lecture The Aegean region, the longue durée and Bronze Age dynamics. 2 24/01 Seminar 2. The Aegean region, the longue durée and Bronze Age dynamics. 24/01 Lecture Contrasting EBA developments: the southern mainland, western Anatolia and the Cyclades. 3 31/01 Seminar 3. Contrasting EBA developments: the southern mainland, western Anatolia and the Cyclades. 31/01 Lecture EBA Crete and the emergence of the Minoan palace-states. 4 07/02 Seminar 4. EBA Crete and the emergence of the Minoan palace-states. 07/02 Lecture Palatial Crete: society, economy, polity and ideology. 5 14/02 Seminar 5. Palatial Crete: society, economy, polity and ideology. 14/02 Lecture Minoanisation and the southern Aegean. 1 6 Reading Week British Museum artefact sessions. 7 28/02 Seminar 6. Minoanisation and the southern Aegean. 28/02 Lecture The transformations of Cretan polities. 8 06/03 Seminar 7. The transformations of Cretan polities. 06/03 Lecture Development, social formations and dynamics in the Mycenaean Aegean. 9 13/03 Seminar 8. Development, social formations and dynamics in the Mycenaean Aegean. 13/03 Lecture The Aegean and the wider Mediterranean: changing relationships. 10 20/03 Seminar 9. The Aegean and the wider Mediterranean: changing relationships. 20/03 Lecture The collapse of Aegean polities and the end of the Bronze Age. 11 27/03 Seminar 10. The collapse of Aegean polities and the end of the Bronze Age. Basic texts Bintliff, J. 2012. The Complete Archaeology of Greece. From hunter-gatherers to the 20th century A.D. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. [INST ARCH DAE 100 BI; On-line] Broodbank, C. 2013. The Making of the Middle Sea. London: Thames and Hudson. [INST ARCH DAG 100 BRO] Warren, P. 1989. The Aegean Civilisations (revised edition; short book-length introduction). [INST ARCH DAG 10 Qto WAR; YATES Qto A 22 WAR] Dickinson, O. 1994. The Aegean Bronze Age (long the standard textbook, organised by themes rather than periods). [IOA Issue Desk DIC; INST ARCH DAE 100 DIC] Dickinson, O. 2006. The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: continuity and change between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. [INST ARCH DAG 100 DIC] Runnels, C. and P. Murray. 2001. Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guide. [INST ARCH DAE 100 RUN] Fitton, J.L. 2002. Minoans. London: British Museum. [INST ARCH DAG 14 FIT] Schofield, L. 2007. The Mycenaeans. London: British Museum. [IOA Issue Desk DAE SCH] Cline, E. (ed.). 2010. The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC). Oxford: OUP. [INST ARCH DAG 100 CLI; On-line] Shelmerdine, C. (ed.). 2008. The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age. Cambridge: CUP. [INST ARCH DAG 100 SHE; On-line] Teaching methods The module is taught as a series of 10 weekly seminars, to discuss and debate the subject defined for that week. Seminars have weekly required readings, which students will be expected to have read to be able fully to follow and actively to contribute to the discussion. An additional 2-hour (optional but recommended) lecture on Friday 2-4 each week, provides a background for the readings and seminar of the following week. There will also be an object presentation in the British Museum in association with the first piece of assessed coursework. Workload There will be 20 hours of seminars for this module, plus the British Museum presentation (c. 3 hours). Students will be expected to undertake around 80 hours of reading for the module, plus 45 hours preparing for and producing the assessed work. This adds up to a total workload of some 150 hours for the module. Prerequisites This module does not have a formal prerequisite. However, students will ideally have some familiarity with Aegean prehistory through previous study, to ensure that they have the background to get the most out of the Masters level seminars. The additional optional lectures are provided to help with such background. In addition, a BA module ARCL0066: The Emergence of BA Aegean Civilisation will be taught this term by Dr Borja Legarra Herrero (Mondays 10-12, room 410). There is no good textbook which covers the material for this module, but anyone wanting to brush-up could usefully consult the on-line resource produced by Jerry Rutter at Dartmouth College <http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/> (last revised 2011-13). 2 2. Aims, objectives and assessment Aims • To provide advanced, well-rounded training in the archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean. • To instruct students in critical evaluation of current research (problems, methods and theory, the quality of evidence and substantive results). • To familiarise students with major elements and examples of Aegean material culture relevant to the period, and analytical and interpretive approaches to them. • To introduce students to important current research projects. • To prepare students to undertake original research in Aegean prehistoric archaeology. Objectives On successful completion of this module a student should: • Have a solid overview of major developments and interpretive perspectives in Aegean prehistory, with greater in-depth knowledge of topics on which coursework has been written, and a general understanding of how the Aegean region fits into a wider Mediterranean and European context. • Understand the main interpretive paradigms that have dominated the field, as well as their strengths and weaknesses, enabling assessment and criticism of the structure or rationale of arguments and interpretations in the literature. • Recognise a broad range of the material culture from the period, and understand its cultural significance as well as its interpretive potential. • Be able to explore data from the prehistoric Aegean using a wide range of theoretical approaches current in archaeology. Learning outcomes On completion of the module, students will have enhanced their skills in critical reading and reflection, be aware of how to evaluate alternative interpretations, developed their skills in applying ideas and methods to bodies of data, become proficient in combining information and ideas from different sources, improved their peer-debating skills, and honed their ability to express arguments clearly in written form. They will have gained the background required to define and pursue original research in Aegean prehistory. Methods of assessment This module is assessed by a total of 4,000 words of coursework. This is divided into (i) a 1,000-word written version of an oral presentation to the group on an object selected by each student (subject to approval) from the British Museum collections (contributing 20% of the module mark), and (ii) a 3,000- word essay (contributing 80% of the module mark). Together these comprise 100% of the mark awarded for the module. Topics and specific titles for the essays are defined by each student to suit their individual interests, in consultation with (and with the approval of) the Module Co-ordinator, who will give guidance to ensure that the question is answerable, that it is neither too narrow nor too broad, and that it is being approached in an effective way. He can also advise on relevant readings from the seminar lists, plus additional reading that may be appropriate. If students are unclear about the nature of an assignment, they should contact the Module Co-ordinator. Coursework Deadlines Written version of oral presentation: Monday 9 March 2020. Essay: Friday 1 May 2020. Coursework content Like almost any satisfactory piece of academic writing, your essays should present an argument supported by evidence and analysis. Typically your analysis will include a critical evaluation (not simply summary or description) of the principal or most relevant previous ideas and arguments, and develop your own reasoned argument, supporting, critiquing, or combining elements of earlier scholarship, or developing a new perspective or synthesis. 3 Some guidelines on academic essay writing will be circulated closer to the essay submission date, but two points relevant to all MA essay writing deserve mention now. First, express your arguments in your own words; your essay is meant to demonstrate your understanding of an issue. Some submitted essays are essentially just a string of quotations illustrating what others have said, but this does not demonstrate a critical assessment of those claims, or a clear understanding of the issues.
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