The earliest historical documents from Anatolia were recorded on clay in a dialect of Akkadian known as Old Assyrian, by Assyrian merchants trading in Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2000-1750 BCE). The archives of the Hittite Empire preserve documents in Hittite and Akkadian that date to the Late Bronze Age (c.17th-12th centuries BCE). In the subsequent Iron Age, the Assyrian Empire expanded into Anatolia and left records shedding light on Anatolian history.
Organized by Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), this 3-week intensive online summer program aims to develop the skills necessary to explore these earliest historical records of Anatolia:
- a basic knowledge of the cuneiform script
- a basic knowledge of the Hittite and Akkadian languages
- the ability to follow scholarly editions of cuneiform texts using primary Assyriological and Hittitological resources
- an introduction to Sumerian and Luwian languages
Program Hakkında
Program, çevresel arkeolojiyi katılımcılara tanıtmayı amaçlayan program, araştırma konuları ve metotlarını da kapsayarak zooarkeoloji, arkeobotanik ve biyoarkeoloji alanlarına yoğunlaşacak.
About Program
The program is designed to introduce participants to environmental archaeology broadly, including a survey of research questions and methods, and to explore in depth three important subfields: archaeobotany, zooarchaeology and bioarchaeology.