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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
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Providence, RI 02912
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Week 1: Where is Mesopotamia, Near East, Middle East? Imperialism and the politics of defining a region. January 25 Friday.
Week 2. Archaeology, politics and the “presence of the past” in the Middle East
Week 3. Landscapes of the Near East
Week 4. Prehistory: the Neolithic in the Near East
Week 5. Towards urbanization and social complexity: Uruk Period in Southern Mesopotamia
Week 6. From memory to history: the urban, literate cultures of southern Iraq
Week 7. Vision, visuality and the cult image: Mesopotamia in the Early Bronze Age
Week 8. Akkad and Sumer: narratives of royal ideology
Week 9. Cities and nomads along the Euphrates: Syria in the Middle Bronze Age
Week 10. Greetings to my brother! Late Bronze age in the Levant and the Hittite Empire