Syllabus
Lessons:
Introduction: topographical and geological settings, different scholar traditions
Background: 2nd millennium BC
Background: end of the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
Panaztepe, Larissa – Phocaea – Cyme
Smyrna / Bayrakli
Bay of Izmir and the Çesme peninsula
Chios
Teos a Colophon
Ephesos / Apaša
Samos
Ancient Milesia
Discussion on the so-called Ionian migration
Annotation
Ancient Ionia
Dr. Marek Verčík - doc. PhDr. Peter Pavúk, Ph.D.
The course focuses on the archaeology of the central part of the western Anatolian littoral and the adjacent islands in the Aegean. Known in the historical time as Ionia, this region represented a border or an interaction zone between the Aegean and the Anatolia. The course explores the material culture and the habitation in the region during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, as well as their relation to the distinct local topography and geology. Despite a long research tradition in the region, a recent synopsis on Ionia is still missing. For this reason, it is the main aim of the course to familiarize the students with the local social and cultural developments by means of a novel teaching format combining archaeological, scientific and anthropological approach. In particular, the ongoing discussion on the so-called Ionian migration will be used as an example to fostering the critical thinking by means of an evaluation of the formation of scholarly narratives about the changes in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the 2nd mil. BC and the beginning of the 1st mil BC.