Università Roma Tre

This course aims to present a methodological framework of the discipline, to introduce students to the history of archaeological studies and research in the Near East. The course aims to provide the students with cognitive and interpretive tools on the main cultural processes developed by pre-classical civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia from the second half of the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC. The course will allow students to acquire knowledge on material culture and will provide them with the ability to orientate and critically analyse archaeological artifacts through the contexts of discovery.