First States in the Middle East: Formation, Factors and Processes

Pre-requisites: To have passed the following subjects: Palestinian Archaeology: Epipaleolithic-Bronze Age; Archaeology of Egypt: Pre and Early Dynastic Period; Egypt and its Surrounding: Interrelations in the 4th Millennium B.C.; Basics of Biblical Archaeology.

Course objectives: An overview of evolutionary trajectories of the first states on in the Middle East. Introduction to the: processes, dynamism and markers of the level of socio-political complexity in a state, and its archaeological definition. The development of critical data reviewing skills

Course description: Elements for state identification in the archeological context of the Middle East. Archaeologically identifying the change from chiefdom to a state. Review of factors and processes in the formation of a state. Models of social development and centralization. Mesopotamia during the Uruk period. Formation and the development phases of the state in Egypt, from the protonomes to the empire.

Learning Outcomes: Attendance and written examination.

First States in the Middle East: Formation, Factors and Processes

Pre-requisites: To have passed the following subjects: Palestinian Archaeology: Epipaleolithic-Bronze Age; Archaeology of Egypt: Pre and Early Dynastic Period; Egypt and its Surrounding: Interrelations in the 4th Millennium B.C.; Basics of Biblical Archaeology.

Course objectives: An overview of evolutionary trajectories of the first states on in the Middle East. Introduction to the: processes, dynamism and markers of the level of socio-political complexity in a state, and its archaeological definition. The development of critical data reviewing skills

Course description: Elements for state identification in the archeological context of the Middle East. Archaeologically identifying the change from chiefdom to a state. Review of factors and processes in the formation of a state. Models of social development and centralization. Mesopotamia during the Uruk period. Formation and the development phases of the state in Egypt, from the protonomes to the empire.

Learning Outcomes: Attendance and written examination.

Literature/Reading:

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