From Bronze to Iron: The Mediterranean in the Later 2nd Millennium BC (P00151)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : HCA-P-P00151

Short description of course: The course deals with evidence for the exploitation, procurement and consumption of metals and other materials in a period of major transitions. It examines the role of trade amongst palace-oriented societies and adjacent social systems in the Mediterranean regions; the collapse of many of those organisational systems at the end of the Late Bronze Age, as epitomised in studies of the Sea Peoples; and the ensuing social and political patterns that emerged with the change of the millennia.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of History and Classics), (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	09:00	10:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

A knowledge and understanding of:
- the development of western attitudes to other cultures;
- the manner in which interdisciplinary studies can lead to much richer reconstructions; and
- early human developments in the Near East and Mediterranean regions.