COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ANCIENT SEAFARING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SAA 5013 ANCIENT SEAFARING 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 ABDURRAHMAN HARUN ÖZDAŞ

Offered to

UNDERWATER ARCHAELOGY

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to introduce the maritime history of the world, the floating vessels in the first primitive ages, Bronze Age ships, development of ships to Archaic period, the examination of maritime activities based on archaeological finds.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize the ships, maritime trade routes and shipbuilding techniques in antiquity
2   Be able to analyze the process of development of seafaring from ancient times to the present
3   Be able to consider the role of seafaring in the relations between different cultures in ancient times
4   Be able to describe the socio-economic history of the ancient civilizations based on the traces of seafaring
5   Be able to gain a historical perspective about the sea peoples and colonization movement
6   Be able to have an active role to make projects and modeling for the protection of International underwater cultural heritage
7   Be able to gain an ability to work together on the research of ancient seafaring
8   Integrate multi-disciplinary fields such as ship engineering and seafaring to underwater archeology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The first emergence of floating vessels in the water
2 Descriptions and models of ships dated to 4000 BC Prehistoric Egypt Ships of Early Garzean Culture depicted ceramics and fabrics "naval battle" of Late Garzean Culture depicted on Gebel-el-Arak knife Uruk and Jamdat Nasr Ships Sumerian ships and seafaring
3 Indus seafaring and harbors dated to 3000 BC - West coasts of Persian Gulf -Early Dynastic Egypt Ships -Egyptian Old Kingdom Ships -Hull of ship and equipment for Ex-Egyptian Dynasty - Rowing and Navigation Systems for Ex-Egyptian Dynasty
4 egean seafaring dated to 3000 BC -Early Minoan Ships -Cycladic Ships -Helladik Ships
5 Middle and Late Bronze Age ships and seafaring Kaş Uluburun shipwreck
6 Midterm
7 Late Hellas and Minoan ships and seafaring -Thera and the Aegean World -Minoan Colonization
8 Egypt Neo Kingdom ships and seafaring Deir el-Bahari Temple -Egyptian Obelisk barges -BC 1500 Egypt seafaring -Neo Kingdom of Egypt and Foreign Ships -First Naval War Records -Sea Peoples
9 Kenan, Cyprus and other Near Eastern Cultures seafaring Seafaring manuscripts in Ugarit -Ugarit's seafarers and Cape Gelidonya wreck Maritime activities of Kenan's Culture in BC 2000 -Bronze Age Cyprus ships Iria Cape Wreck
10 Neo-Sumerian and Ancient Babylonian seafaring BC. 2000 - 500 Near Eastern ships and seafaring -Ur's seafaring Tablets of III. dynastic period in Ur
11 Proto Geometric and Geometric ships - ship depictions on the geometric vase -Greek Rowing ships -Dipylon Vase Proto-geometric long ships and spur two-stage design in Early Greek ships
12 Assyrian and Phoenician ships and seafaring Syrian-Egyptian Maritime Trade
13 7th cent. BC seafaring, Etruscan, Italian and Sardinian ships
14 Overview of the ancient seafaring

Recomended or Required Reading

1- A.Amstead, A Dictionary of Sea Terms (Glasgow 1956)
2-G.F.BASS, ed. A History of Seafaring Based on Underwater Archaeology, (New York and London 1972)
3-L.Casson, The Ancient Mariners (New York 1959)
4-L.Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Princeton 1971)
5-C.M.Graeve, The Ships of the Ancient Near East (c.2000-500 BC) (Leuven 1981)
6-D.Jones, A Glassary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles and Terms (London and New York 1988)
7-J.S. Morrison and R.T.Williams, Greek Oared Ships 900-322 BC. (Cambridge 1968)
8-P.Throckmorton, The Sea Remembers:Shipwrecks and Archaeology (New York 1987)
9-S. Vinson, Egyptian Boats and Ships (Shire Egyptology 1994)
10-S.Washman, Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Late Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University 1977)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1 Courses: Theoretical information is given and related topics are significantly examined with examples. The references related to the course will be read by students in parallel weekly program. The earliest ships dated to 5th cent BC are examined in the course, to be in the light of archaeological data. The examples from different civilization in the Mediterranean Sea will be compared.
2 Assignment Presentation 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 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


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 1 20 20
Reading 5 2 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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