COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANCIENT HARBORS AND HARBOR CITIES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAA 5019 ANCIENT HARBORS AND HARBOR CITIES COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NILHAN KIZILDAĞ

Offered to

UNDERWATER ARCHAELOGY

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to introduce the harbor construction technologies in ancient times, underwater construction techniques, the relationship between the harbors and cities, the emergence of harbor cities and the methods used in the study.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to describe the periodic identification by evaluating the of ancient harbor construction technologies
2   Be able to evaluate the role of seafaring relations between different civilizations throughout the ages, based on the existence of harbors
3   Be able to interpret the development of the harbor construction techniques by comparing with the ancient harbor structures and modern constructions
4   Be able to gain information from past to present by investigating the harbors and harbor cities
5   Be able to interpret about the risks of modern port structures considering the harbor construction technology developed from antiquity to the present
6   Be able to integrate the advanced underwater research technologies to the underwater archeology
7   Be able to obtain knowledge and experience in order to perform underwater archaeological research in international standards with a team of multi-disciplinary
8   Be able to have an active role to produce project and modeling in the field of protection of International underwater cultural heritage

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to harbor facilities Harbor definition, sections, forms, structure, and modern harbors
2 Ships The structure and size of the first ship, the first information and the ship - harbor relationship
3 First Harbor Works Rivers and the Mediterranean harbors in Indus, Mesopotamia, and Egypt
4 River Harbors Reasons of the emergence of river harbors, building techniques of harbor pools and slipways
5 Sea Harbors Reasons of the emergence of the sea harbors, general structures, the first societies to use, colonization periods, the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Crete, Greece and the Aegean Islands
6 Midterm
7 Resource and Issues The written sources of harbors. Antiquity authors such as Strabo, Pliny, Herodotus, ancient architect Vitruvius' s definitions, inscriptions, descriptions of resources and issues
8 Harbor Cities and Harbors of Ancient Anatolia The emergence of the harbor cities in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea, the relationship between harbor and cities, Anatolian harbor cities
9 Excavated Harbors Detailed examination of Caeseria the Eastern Mediterranean, Portus in Italy, the comparisons Side and Phaselis harbors with Cnidus and Halicarnassus harbors
10 Sections of ancient harbors Recent developing forms of sections of former harbors depending on the need. , Moles, breakwaters, quays, emporiums, warehouses, piers, lighthouses, shipyards
11 Moles and Breakwaters The relation between the examples of natural structure and man-made harbors which was built underwater, underwater construction techniques, tools and materials
12 Quays The emergence and development of the quays need. Construction techniques, the relationship between the quays and storage and the purchase centers
13 Lighthouses and Shipyards Shipyards structures in the transition period from the first examples to the standard production process of ships and their locations
14 Acoustic investigation of harbor structures The investigations of submerged harbor structures by geophysical methods such as multibeam bathymetry, subbottom profiler, magnetometer

Recomended or Required Reading

1. N.C.Flemming. Cities in the Sea. An exploration of ancient cities beneath the Mediterranean. London, 1972. 211 p.
2. Rowland, I.D. & Howe, T.N. Vitruvius, Ten books on architecture. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
3. Raban, A., Kenneth, G.H., Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective After Two Millenia. BRILL, 1996. 694 p.
4. Blackmann, D. J. Ancient harbours in the Mediterranean. Part 1. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 1982. 11: 79-104.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1 Courses: Theoretical information is given and related topics are significantly examined with examples. It will be focus on the techniques and materials used in ancient harbor construction technologies, rather than mathematical calculations. The references related to the course will be read by students in parallel weekly program.
2 Assignment and Discussion: Each student prepares homework, which is determined by lecturer and on the last hour of each week, homework and presentations and discussion will be held

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 10 1 10
Reading 10 2 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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