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| Unit | FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND LETTERS |
| ARCHAEOLOGY PR. | |
| Code | AR333 |
| Name | Prehistoric Technologies 1 |
| Term | 2018-2019 Academic Year |
| Semester | 5. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 2-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 3 ECTS |
| National Credit | 2 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Üniversite Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Label | E Elective |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Doç. Dr. BAKİYE EDENS |
| Course Instructor |
Doç. Dr. BAKİYE EDENS
(Güz)
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
Öğr. Gör. Dr. CHRISTOPHER MEDWIN EDENS (Güz) (A Group) (Asst. Ins.) |
Course Goal / Objective
Striving to understand from material remains human intellectual and physical evolution in prehistoric periods and their resulting cultural development, from the perspective of technology.
Course Content
The adventure of the development of technology begins with orienting the intelligence, logic and sense organs of the first people toward materials. It is irrefutable that the longest stage of this process, up to the invention of writing, encompassed the foundations of all of today's advanced technologies. This course will consider and teach, in the framework of the process of prehistoric transformations, people and their products, and the technological developments of their production, in parallel with their physical, mental and psychological evolution.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Understands the history of technology and important turning points that lead to today's technology. |
| LO02 | Explains the relationship between the human modernization process and cultures. |
| LO03 | Understands the general terms related to chipped stone technology, and their meanings. |
| LO04 | Understands theoretically the varieties of Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic chipped stone technology. |
| LO05 | Recognizes Epipalaeolithic technologies and products. |
| LO06 | Understands visually how a chipped stone tool was made. |
| LO07 | Introduces pyrotechnologies of the Palaeolithic. |
| LO08 | Understands bone technologies of the Palaeolithic. |
| LO09 | Understands technologies from other raw materials in the Palaeolithic. |
| LO10 | Infers characteristics of societies from tool technologies. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Concerns of the course and of the semester: technology and its history | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 2 | Evolution and cultures | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 3 | Chipped stone technology (the earliest technology) - general terms, raw materials, mechanics of knapping | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 4 | Chipped stone technology - flake, blade, retouch | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 5 | Chipped stone technology - Olduwan, other pebble tool cultures, Clactonian, Acheulian | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 6 | Chipped stone technology - Mousterian (Levallois techniques), Upper Palaeolithic blade techniques, Epipalaeolithic/Mesolithic microliths and composite tools | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 7 | Chipped stone technology - developments after the Palaeolithic | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Exam preparation | |
| 9 | Using stone tools - working organic materials (wood, hides) | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 10 | Pyrotechnologies in the Palaeolithic | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 11 | Bone and antler tools I | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 12 | Bone and antler tools II | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 13 | Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic innovations - grinding stones, polished stone, pottery I | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 14 | Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic innovations - grinding stones, polished stone, pottery II | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 15 | Palaeolithic technologies - a brief summary | Assigned chapters should be read | |
| 16 | Term Exams | Exam preparation | |
| 17 | Term Exams | Exam preparation |
Assessment (Exam) Methods and Criteria
| Assessment Type | Midterm / Year Impact | End of Term / End of Year Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Midterm Exam | 100 | 40 |
| General Assessment | ||
| Midterm / Year Total | 100 | 40 |
| 1. Final Exam | - | 60 |
| Grand Total | - | 100 |