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140363 SE "North of the "Incense Road": an archaeological approach" (2017S)
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
Voraussetzungen: für AO-12/3: AO-6, für AO-10/2: STEOP, für AO-11/2: AO-7 sowie AO-2 oder AO-4 je nach gewählter Sprache.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 03.02.2017 08:00 to Fr 03.03.2017 12:00
- Registration is open from Tu 07.03.2017 08:00 to Tu 14.03.2017 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Su 26.03.2017 23:59
Details
max. 12 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 09.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 16.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 23.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 30.03. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 06.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 27.04. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 04.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 11.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 18.05. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 01.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 08.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 22.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
- Thursday 29.06. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum Assyrica UniCampus Hof 4 2D-O1-22
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
The 'Incense Road' is a catch-phrase term that originated mainly from the interpretation of written sources. In this seminar, an archaeological approach will be privileged with the goal of reviewing present and past reconstructions and definitions. In particular we will analyze the northern segment of the 'Incense Road', a region that with its newest results from field research offers an unprecedented opportunity to take stock of the subject.
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirement for a positive grade is giving two oral presentations and redaction (incl. potentially required correction) of the two corresponding written assignments in agreement with the standards set by the course instructor and in respect of the rules to safeguard good scientific practice. Attendance is required. Three absences without permission are tolerated.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Each contribution will be evaluated separately: written assignment (incl. potentially required correction) will account for 70% of the grade, oral presentation for 20% and active participation 10%.
Examination topics
Two oral presentations and two written assignments, one for each theme chosen from the list of the ones proposed during the course.
Reading list
Avanzini A ed 1997 Profumi d'Arabia, Rome.
Boivin N - Blench R - Fuller DQ 2009 Archaeological, linguistic and historical sources on ancient seafaring: A multidisciplinary approach to the study of early maritime contact and exchange in the Arabian Peninsula, in MD Petraglia - JI Rose eds The evolution of human populations in Arabia. Paleoenvironments, prehistory and genetics, Dordrecht et al., 251-278.
Evershed et al. 1997 Archaological Frankincense, Nature 390 Dic. 667-668.
Förster F - Riemer H 2013 Desert Road Archaeology in Ancient Egypt and Beyond, Cologne.
Franke U - Al-Ghabban A - Gierlichs J - Weber S eds 2011 Roads of Arabia. Archäologische Schätze aus Saudi-Arabien, Berlin.
Groom N 1981 Frankincense and Myrrh: AStudy of the Arabian Incense Trade, London.
Hausleiter A 2014 Pottery groups of the late 2nd/Early 1st millennia BC in Northwest Arabia and new evidence from the excavations at Tayma, in M Luciani - A Hausleiter eds Recent trends in the study of Late Bronze Age ceramics in Syro-Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions, Orient- Archäologie 32, Rahden/Westfalen, 399-434.
Jursa M 2009 Die Kralle des Meeres und andere Aromata, in W. Arnold et al eds Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Soqotra: Analecta Semitica In Memoriam Alexander Sima, Wiesbaden, 147-180.
Liverani M 2003 The Influence of Political Institutions on Trade in the Ancient Near East (Late Bronze to Early Iron Age), in C Zaccagnini ed, Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico, Rome, 119-138.
Luciani M 2016 The Archaeology of North Arabia: Oases and Landscapes. Proceedings of the International Congress held at the University of Vienna, December, 5-8, 2013, OREA Series 4, Vienna.
Sherratt S 2009 The Aegean and the Wider World, in WA Parkinson - ML Galaty eds Archaic State Interaction. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, Santa Fe, NM, 81-106.
Peacock D - Williams D eds 2007 Food for the Gods: new light on the ancient incense trade, Oxford.
Petraglia MD - Parton A - Groucutt HS - Alsharekh A 2015 Green Arabia: Human prehistory at the Crossroads of Continents, Quaternary International 382, 1-7.
Seland EH 2014 Networks and social cohesion in ancient Indian Ocean trade: geography, ethnicity, religion, Journal of Global History 8, 373- 390.
Serpico M - White R 2000 The botanical identity and transport of incense during Egyptian New Kingdom, Antiquity 74, 884-897.
Simpson SJ ed 2002 Queen of Sheba - Treasures from Ancient Yemen, London.
Further reading will be discussed during the course.
Boivin N - Blench R - Fuller DQ 2009 Archaeological, linguistic and historical sources on ancient seafaring: A multidisciplinary approach to the study of early maritime contact and exchange in the Arabian Peninsula, in MD Petraglia - JI Rose eds The evolution of human populations in Arabia. Paleoenvironments, prehistory and genetics, Dordrecht et al., 251-278.
Evershed et al. 1997 Archaological Frankincense, Nature 390 Dic. 667-668.
Förster F - Riemer H 2013 Desert Road Archaeology in Ancient Egypt and Beyond, Cologne.
Franke U - Al-Ghabban A - Gierlichs J - Weber S eds 2011 Roads of Arabia. Archäologische Schätze aus Saudi-Arabien, Berlin.
Groom N 1981 Frankincense and Myrrh: AStudy of the Arabian Incense Trade, London.
Hausleiter A 2014 Pottery groups of the late 2nd/Early 1st millennia BC in Northwest Arabia and new evidence from the excavations at Tayma, in M Luciani - A Hausleiter eds Recent trends in the study of Late Bronze Age ceramics in Syro-Mesopotamia and neighbouring regions, Orient- Archäologie 32, Rahden/Westfalen, 399-434.
Jursa M 2009 Die Kralle des Meeres und andere Aromata, in W. Arnold et al eds Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Soqotra: Analecta Semitica In Memoriam Alexander Sima, Wiesbaden, 147-180.
Liverani M 2003 The Influence of Political Institutions on Trade in the Ancient Near East (Late Bronze to Early Iron Age), in C Zaccagnini ed, Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico, Rome, 119-138.
Luciani M 2016 The Archaeology of North Arabia: Oases and Landscapes. Proceedings of the International Congress held at the University of Vienna, December, 5-8, 2013, OREA Series 4, Vienna.
Sherratt S 2009 The Aegean and the Wider World, in WA Parkinson - ML Galaty eds Archaic State Interaction. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age, Santa Fe, NM, 81-106.
Peacock D - Williams D eds 2007 Food for the Gods: new light on the ancient incense trade, Oxford.
Petraglia MD - Parton A - Groucutt HS - Alsharekh A 2015 Green Arabia: Human prehistory at the Crossroads of Continents, Quaternary International 382, 1-7.
Seland EH 2014 Networks and social cohesion in ancient Indian Ocean trade: geography, ethnicity, religion, Journal of Global History 8, 373- 390.
Serpico M - White R 2000 The botanical identity and transport of incense during Egyptian New Kingdom, Antiquity 74, 884-897.
Simpson SJ ed 2002 Queen of Sheba - Treasures from Ancient Yemen, London.
Further reading will be discussed during the course.
Association in the course directory
AO-10/2, AO-11/2 , AO-12/3, MA-AO
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