ARCHAEOLOGY, EXCHANGES, CONTACTS AND ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Single channel
Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: MARCO RAMAZZOTTI
Module 1: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY BETWEEN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND WESTERN ASIA
- Activity type
- Archeologia dell'Asia e dell'Africa e discipline delle civiltà orientali
- SSD
- L-OR/05
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 6
- Hours distribution
- 42 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- MARCO RAMAZZOTTI
Module 2: MEANINGS AND LANGUAGES OF IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
- Activity type
- Archeologia dell'Asia e dell'Africa e discipline delle civiltà orientali
- SSD
- L-OR/05
- Year
- N/D
- Semester
- N/D
- CFU
- 6
- Hours distribution
- 42 classroom hours
- Lecturers
- LORENZO NIGRO
Learning outcomes
Nomadism and urbanism in the Old Near East during the Bronze Age
The course presents and discusses the relationship between nomadism and urbanism through some of the major archaeological, artistic and settlement contexts of the central-western Eurasia in the Bronze Age. The documents of material, figurative, epigraphic culture and the settlement, territorial and landscape data of Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula and North-East Africa outline several complementary and sometimes synchronic processes of cultural, economic and symbolic interaction that took place between the middle of the fifth millennium BC and the middle of the third millennium BC, processes that have given rise to different transformations
Prerequisites
No
Programme
Nomadism and urbanism in the Old Near East during the Bronze Age
The course presents and discusses the relationship between nomadism and urbanism through some of the major archaeological, artistic and settlement contexts of the central-western Eurasia in the Bronze Age. The documents of material, figurative, epigraphic culture and the settlement, territorial and landscape data of Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula and North-East Africa outline several complementary and sometimes synchronic processes of cultural, economic and symbolic interaction that took place between the middle of the fifth millennium BC and the middle of the third millennium BC, processes that have given rise to different transformations
Books
Bibliografia
Ramazzotti M., Archeologia, arte e paesaggio tra Asia occidentale e Mediterraneo orientale ca. 4500-323 a.C., Mondadori Università, Milano 2025.
Ramazzotti M., (ed.), The Historical and Cultural Memory of the Babylonian World Collecting Fragments from the ‘Centre of the World’, Brepols, Leiden 2022.
* Testi di approfondimento verranno forniti nel corso delle lezioni.
Bibliography
Module: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY BETWEEN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND WESTERN ASIA
N/D
Module: MEANINGS AND LANGUAGES OF IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
N/D
Lessons mode
Didattica english friendly
Frequency
Attendance is recommended, the non-attending program must be agreed directly with the teachers.
Exam mode
Lessons, laboratory exercises, participation in seminars
Example exam questions
Exchanges and contacts between Magan and Sumer
Arguments
Module: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY BETWEEN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND WESTERN ASIA
N/D
Module: MEANINGS AND LANGUAGES OF IMAGES IN THE ART OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
N/D
- Academic year2026/2027
- Degree program to which the course belongsArchaeology
- Mandatory presenceNo
- LanguageITA
- CFU12 CFU, distributed among 2 integrated didactic modules
- Total duration84 hours