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Shipwrecks syllabus Fall 2017 1 Shipwrecks, Pirates and Palaces CL 329/ANT385 Fall 2017 White Hall 112 T-Th 1 -2:15 Dr. Blakely [email protected] Candler Library 221 F Office hours: TBA Course description: Silver and bronze, wheat and wool, slaves and entrepreneurial shippers moved around the waterways of the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth millennium to the height of the Roman empire. They created human, political, and technological networks which left distinctive footprints in archaeological materials and cultural memories. In this course we will use case studies to explore the evidence for accounting, globalization, responses to risk, mobility, the relationship between warfare and profit, and information flows in the ancient Mediterranean. Our study will introduce us to a range of archaeological types, including monumental palaces, desert archaeology, shipwrecks and underwater archaeology, as well as the complex relationship between ancient texts, inscriptions, and material evidence. Accountabilities: At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to demonstrate your understanding of: Ancient data: the texts, archaeological sites, monuments, and small finds which are preserved from antiquity Archaeological methodology: the distinctive field methods and scholarly approaches to these data Interpretation: the arguments regarding an ‘economic’ interpretation of these materials Evaluation: Short writing assignments (12 total) 36% Outside lectures (2 total) 4% Midterms (3 total) 45% Final writing assignment 15% Good news: your lowest writing score will be dropped! Bad news: half credit only will be given for late assignments. Short Writing Assignments: these are given weekly, with the exception of midterm weeks. These are very short, designed to help you keep up with the reading and engage critically with the primary data. Midterms: we will have three midterms: Tuesday September 29; Thursday November 5; and Monday December 14 (the final exam date) Outside lectures: We have a range of archaeological speakers coming to Emory this fall: attend two different lectures and write a brief response, indicating questions you would like to ask the speaker. Final writing assignment: this is a 5-page essay, due by midnight on Wednesday December 16, in which you analyze and synthetize materials from all three portions of the course, addressing a theme such as the uses of ideology to enable long distance trade, evidence for women as economic actors, transportation costs, trade in raw materials, the investigation of archaeologically invisible materials such as wheat and wool, etc. This essay is the only comprehensive element of the course, and takes the place of a comprehensive final exam. Classroom policies: Attendance is not taken; open computers are not allowed during class time. Readings: All of the texts for this course are online in the Blackboard site, organized by week with the exception of two books, posted separately: Parkins, H. and C. Smith, ed.s. 1998. Trade, Traders and the Ancient City (Routledge) Rich, J. and G. Shipley, ed.s. 1993. War and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge) Honor code: The honor code of Emory College is always in effect. Papers and quizzes MUST represent strictly your own work, and sources of ideas MUST be acknowledged in the papers. For citations in your final essay, use the Chicago Manual of Style, and include a separate bibliography, which will not count toward your total number of pages. (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html). To refresh your memory on the particulars of the honor code, please visit http://college.emory.edu/home/academic/policy/honor_code.html SCHEDULE The readings listed for each date are to be completed by the time of class Aug 27 – Introduction to the class WEEK 1: Uruk: the first city Shipwrecks syllabus Fall 2017 2 Sept 1 Urban complexity and temple economies in Uruk, 4000-3100 BC Read: Nissen, ‘Uruk and the Formation of the City’; van Mieroop, “Origins: The Uruk Phenomenon” Sept 3 : Uruk: World Systems and the Goddess’ Money Read: Liverani, Uruk, selections; Eanna temple texts (selection); Kozuh, The Sacrificial Economy, 1-11. WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1: The Goddess’ Goats WEEK 2 Mari - palace, trading center and network hub Sept 8 Mari: Palace and network Read: Gates, “The Palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari”; Dalley, Mari and Karana, selections; Aruz, Beyond Babylon, selections. Sept 10 Mari: managing the palace, crossing the desert Read: selections from cuneiform texts; Collon, Sealstones; Moorey, “Blue Stones in the Ancient Near East” WRITING ASSIGNMENT #2: What’s on your sealstone? WEEK 3: Old Assyrian Colonies: Desert traders or the first multinationals? Sept 15: The site, the merchants, the market Read: Özgüç, "Assyrian trade colonies in Anatolia"; Kuhrt, “The Old Assyrian Merchants”, 15-31 in Trade, Traders and the Ancient City; Atici, “The Secondary Products Revolution in light of textual evidence from Kültepe-Kanesh”; Karaduman, "Three Kültepe Texts Regarding the Payment of a Debt in Installments”. Sept 17 Women in charge and modern paradigms Thomason, “Her Share of the Profits: Women, Agency, and Textile Production at Kültepe/Kanesh in the Early Second Millennium BC”; K. Moore and D. Lewis, “The First Multinationals: Assyria circa 2000 BC”; Isakhan, Benjamin. "Engaging" primitive democracy": Mideast roots of collective governance." WRITING ASSIGNMENT #3: 4 points of evidence in ancient-modern comparisons WEEK 4: Mycenaean Palaces: warrior kings, scribes, and a (Trojan) war over tuna Sept 22: Kingly invaders and long distance traders Read: Demand, “ Mycenaean Greece”; Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology Lesson 16, The Shaft Graves (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~prehistory/aegean/?page_id=788; Laffineur, “Aspects of Rulership at Mycenae in the Shaft Grave Period” Sept 24 – Running a palace: Linear B and the Mycenaean economy Read: Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology Lesson 25, “The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political and Economic Organization,” http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eprehistory/aegean/?page_id=659; Chadwick, “The People of the Tablets” and “The social structure and administrative system”: Selections, Amarna letters WRITING ASSIGNMENT #4: 4 points of comparison, Linear B and the Amarna Letters WEEK 5 – A Bronze Age Shipwreck Sept 29 MIDTERM #1 Oct 1 Ulu Burun: Bronze Age time capsule? Read: Pulak, “The Uluburun shipwreck: an overview”; Gould, “Shipwrecks and our understanding of ancient trade” WEEK 6 – Small finds and sea raiders Oct 6 Ulu Burun: small finds and sea raiders Read: Hitchcock, L.A. and A.M. Maeir, “Yo-ho, yo-ho, a seren’s life for me!”; Haldane, “Organic Cargoes”; Hauptmann, Maddin and Prange, “Ingots”; Payton, “The Ulu Burun Writing Board Set” Oct 8 The Outlines of Mediterranean Piracy Read: de Souza, P., “Greek Piracy”; selection of texts from Pritchett, The Greek State at War, on ancient pirates WRITING ASSIGNMENT #5: Piracy, good or bad? WEEK 7 The economics of ancient piracy: comparative perspectives Oct 13 FALL BREAK Oct 15 Ancient functions, modern comparisons, and controls Read: Gabrielsen, “Piracy and the slave trade”; Mack, Proxeny and Polis (selections); Braund, "Piracy under the Principate and the Ideology of Imperial Eradication", in War and Society in the Roman World, 195-212; Kraska, "Freakonomics of maritime piracy;" Little, “Paradigm shifts in Mediterranean Piracy”; Johnson and Pladdet, “Maritime Piracy in Asia”. WEEK 8 Early Greece: Colonies and Coins Oct 20 Making Money Overseas: Greek colonies, east and west Read: Hall, “New Homes Across the Seas”; Dillon and Garland, selections of ancient texts on colonization WRITING ASSIGNMENT #6: The economics of religion in colonial contexts Oct 22 The Invention of Coinage Read: Papadopoulos, “Minting Identity: Coinage, Ideology and the Economics of Colonization in Akhaian Magna Graecia”; Burnett, Coins; Peacock, “The Origins of Money”; Davies, “Temples, Credit and Circulation of Money”. WEEK 9: Social policy, Silver, and Slavery Oct 27 Athens and her Sailors: life, insurance and social attitudes in the Piraeus Shipwrecks syllabus Fall 2017 3 Read: Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 68-72, ‘Piraeus’; Dillon and Garland, selections on metics; Reed, Maritime Traders in the Ancient Greek World, selections; Millett, Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens, selection on bottomry loans Oct 29 Slavery and the Silver Mines Read: Rihll, “Skilled Slaves and the Economy: the Silver Mines of Laurion”; Dillon and Garland, selections on slaves, serfs and citizens; Humphrey, ancient selections on mining/quarrying; Kyrtatas, “Slavery and Economy in the Greek World” WRITING ASSIGNMENT #7: Reconstructing slavery WEEK 10 The Hellenistic world: conflict and networks Nov 3 Egypt and the Islands after Alexander Read: Reger, Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos; Archibald, “Making the most of one’s friends: Western Asia Minor in the early Hellenistic Age; Peralta, “Gods of Trust”; Gabrielsen, “Brotherhoods of Faith and Provident Planning” Nov 5 MIDTERM #2 WEEK 11 Rome: Archaeologies of transport and retail Nov 10 Rome: Shipping it, storing it and selling it Read: Greene, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy, 1-44 Nov 12 Shopping in Rome: Structures and supply Read: Selections from Halleran, Shopping in Rome: 1-10, Ostia, An Industrial Port City; Orbis.stanford.edu; http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/amphora_ahrb_2005/info_intro.cfm WRITING ASSIGNMENT #8: ORBIS: Roman Shipping Routes Online WEEK 12 Rome: shopping and predation Nov 17 Shopping in Rome: Ostia, the Markets of Trajan, and the Forum Read: Selections from Halleran, Shopping in Rome; 23-51; 62-87; 232-257 Nov 19 The Roman Army and the Economy: predation as an economic strategy Read: Bang, “Predation”; Erdkamp, “The Corn Supply of the Roman Army during the Principate (27 BC – 235 AD)”; Haynes, “Britain’s First Information Revolution: the Roman army and the transformation of economic life”; Verboven, “Good for Business. The Roman Army and the Emergence of a Business Class in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire”. WRITING ASSIGNMENT #9: Profit and cost in the Roman army WEEK 13 – THANKSGIVING go home! Eat! Sleep! Ski! WEEK 14: Bread and Pepper Dec 1 Grain in Rome: feeding the city, from Egypt to the Annona Read: Temin, “The organization of the grain trade in the early Roman Empire”; Charles and Ryan, “The Roman Empire and the Grain Fleets: Contracting Out Public Services in antiquity”; ancient literary sources on bread baking and bakers WRITING ASSIGNMENT #10: The life story of a loaf of Roman Bread Dec 3 Roman India: pepper, tigers, and piracy Read: Begley and de Puma, Rome and India: The Ancient Sea Trade (selections); Prabha Ray, “Adventurers, travelers and traders”; in The Archaeology of Seafaring in Ancient South Asia; Gupta, "Piracy and trade on the western coast of India (AD 1–250)". WEEK 15: Conclusion Dec 8 Production, mobility, and economic models: gauging the ancient Mediterranean Economy WRITING ASSIGNMENT #11: 2 artifacts, 2 stories: studies of small finds in Roman India FINAL EXAM: TBA