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Archaeology of Iron Age Arabia - AKA500136

Title:	Archaeology of Iron Age Arabia
Guaranteed by:	Institute for Classical Archeology (21-UKAR)
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	winter
Points:	0
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	25 / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
Key competences:
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Mgr. Jan Kocna
Teacher(s):	Mgr. Jan Kocna

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Annotation - Czech

Last update: Mgr. Petra Tušlová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)

The lectures introduce important cultural complexes predominating in material assemblages across the
archaeologically most remarkable regions of the Arabian Peninsula, in between the late 2nd mill. BC and the
period of the rise of Islam during the early 7th c. AD. The focus will successively shift across the areas of modern-
day Yemen, the Saudi Arabian North-West, the oases territories in the Eastern Province, and the Maka region
comprising roughly of the UAE and northern Oman. Iron Age on the Arabian Peninsula was a turbulent era bearing
witness to gradual rise and fall of civilizations developing unique and intrinsical socio-cultural syntheses under the
influence of their well-known neighbouring empires. The course directs its attention towards the changing function
of these regions and civilizations within the framework of available epigraphical records, basic historical context,
and remnants of material culture. Assessment of the most significant archaeological sites, summaries of
previous relevant researches and introduction of the ongoing archaeological investigations will all be treated as
an integral part of the latter.

The course Archaeology of Iron Age Arabia is eligible and suitable for both BA and MA students, as well as for
visiting students as a part of the Erasmus+ programme.

Literature -

Last update: Mgr. Petra Tušlová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)

Avanzini, A. 2008: A Port in Arabia between Rome and the Indian Ocean: 3rd c. BC - 5th c. AD: Khor Rori Report

Bowersock, G. 1994: Roman Arabia

De Maigret, A. 2002: Arabia Felix

Retsö, J. 2003: The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads

Korotayev, A. 1995: Ancient Yemen

Al-Ghabban et al. 2010: Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Kervran, M., Hiebert, F., Rougeulle, A. 2005: Qala’at al-Bahrain: a trading and military outpost 3rd mill. BC - 17th c. AD

McLaughlin, R. 2014: The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean

Politis, K. D., Verlag, F. S. 2007: The World of the Nabataeans

Potts, D. 2012: In the Land of the Emirates: The Archaeology and History of the UAE

Hoyland, R. G. 2001: Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the coming of Islam

Schiettecatte, J. 2011: D’Aden Zafar: Villes d’Arabie du Sud Préislamique

Jassim, S. A., Uerpmann, M., Uerpmann, H.-P. 2016: Mleiha: The Unwritten History

Huth, M., Van Alfen, P. 2010: Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms: Studies in Ancient Arabian Monetization

Additional literature will be recommended progressively during the individual lectures.

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Petra Tušlová, Ph.D. (01.06.2023)

1. Iron Age on the Arabian Peninsula: context, regions, chronology

2. The beginnings of Iron Age in Yemen: ethnogenesis and the dominance of Saba; Qataban, Hadramaut and Ma’in

3. Dhofar and the long-distance trade in aromatics

4. Dedan, Lihyan and Nabatea: Arabian Northwest

5. Tayma and Dumat: Oases of the North

6. Iron Age in the Gulf

7. Greeks and Romans in Arabia; Arabia and India

8. Arabian “Hellenism”: Arab kingdoms outside the Peninsula

9. Late Antiquity on the Arabian Peninsula: Himyar and Axum

10. Late Antiquity on the Arabian Peninsula: Ghassanids and Lakhmids/Jafnids and Nasrids

Education plan -

Schedule semestral
Educational week	Date	From - To	Education type	Theme	Teacher	Files	Note
1	04.10.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Iron Age on the Arabian Peninsula: context, regions, chronology, prehistory	Mgr. Jan Kocna		First lecture on 4.10. 9:10 C317
5	01.11.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	The beginnings of Iron Age in Yemen: ethnogenesis and hegemony of Saba; Qataban, Hadramawt and Ma'in	Mgr. Jan Kocna		Second lecture on 1.11. 9:10 C317
6	08.11.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Dhofar and the long-distance trade in aromatics	Mgr. Jan Kocna
7	15.11.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Dedan, Lihyan and Nabataea: Arabian Northwest	Mgr. Jan Kocna
8	22.11.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Tayma and Dumat: Oases of the North	Mgr. Jan Kocna
9	29.11.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Iron Age in the Gulf	Mgr. Jan Kocna
10	06.12.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Greek and Romans in Arabia & Arabia and India	Mgr. Jan Kocna
11	13.12.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Arab Kingdoms outside the Peninsula	Mgr. Jan Kocna
12	20.12.2023	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Late Antiquity on the Arabian Peninsula: Himyar and Axum	Mgr. Jan Kocna
15	10.01.2024	09:10 - 10:45	lecture	Late Antiquity on the Arabian Peninsula: Ghassanids and Lakhmids	Mgr. Jan Kocna