I periodically teach a 4th year UG/doctoral seminar on the historical arcaheology of Ottoman Greece and the Balkans. I realize that it is very far afield from what Anna is looking for, but I thought it might be useful to get a comparative perspective from another part of the world.

Tom Gallant



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HIEU 183/283. Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Balkans.



Spring Quarter 2011



“Archaeology is perhaps the richest barely-tapped resource for Ottoman history.” (Frederick F. Anscombe, “Introduction,” in The Ottoman Balkans 1750-1830 (Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006), p. 9, footnote 11.





Contact info

Dr. Thomas W. Gallant

Nicholas Family Endowed Chair

Professor of Modern Greek History & Archaeology



Department of History, 0104

University of California,

San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla, CA 92093-0104

(campus  office)  858-534-9597 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Homepage: http://thomaswgallant.org



Office: H & SS 4016

Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 11 to 12



Course goals

The goals of this colloquium are:

1. Introduce you to the field of Historical Archaeology.

2. Expose you to the field’s methods, techniques, practices and theories.

3. Familiarize you with the key topics and subjects covered in this field.

4. Expose you to case studies in the Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Balkans and the Mediterranean.



Course requirements

1. Participation: 35%

2. Three short reaction papers, based on the readings from 3 of the topics covered in class: 45%

3. Two (of three) short research assignments: 20%



Class list

March 30: Introduction

April 6: Topic 1: Historical Archaeology

April 13: Topic 2.1.Landscape Studies: Settlement Systems April 20: Topic 2.2. Landscape Studies: Working the Land April 27: Topic 3.1. Material Culture: Built Space

May 4: No Class

May 11: Topic 3.2. Material Culture: Things to Live With May 18: Topic 4.1. Trade & Exchange

May 25: Topic 4. 2. Production

June 1: Topic 5. Cemeteries: Learning from the Dead: Social History of Death





Topic 1. Historical Archaeology

This topic introduces you to the sub-field of History known as Historical Archaeology. By combining the study of archaeological remains with that of archival records and other literary sources, the historical archaeologist can study aspects of human history that would otherwise remain poorly understood.



Mayne, Alan. "On the Edges of History: Reflections on Historical Archaeology." The American Historical Review 113, no. 1 (2008): 93-118.



Orser, Charles. “Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology.” Journal of  Archaeological Research 18, no. 2 (2010): 111-50.



Baram, Uzi. “Above and Beyond Ancient Mounds: The Archaeology of the Modern Periods in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean.” International Handbook of Historical Archaeology (2009): 647-662.



Bintliff, John L. “Considerations for Creating An Ottoman Archaeology in Greece.” In Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece. Edited by Jack L. Davis & Siriol Davies. Princeton: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007, pp. 221-36.



Topic 2. Landscape Studies

2.1 Settlement Systems

Anschuetz, Kurt F, Richard H Wilshusen, and Cherie L Scheick. "An Archaeology of Landscapes: Perspectives and Directions." Journal of Archaeological Research 9, no. 2 (2001): 157-211.



Kantner, John. "The Archaeology of Regions: From Discrete Analytical Toolkit to Ubiquitous Spatial Perspective." Journal of Archaeological Research 16, no. 1 (2008): 37-81.



Turner, Sam, and Jim Crow. "Unlocking Historic Landscapes in the Eastern Mediterranean: Two Pilot Studies Using Historic Landscape Characterisation." Antiquity 84, no. 323 (2010): 216-229.



Tartaron, T F, T E Gregory, D J Pullen, J S Noller, R M Rothaus, J L Rife, L Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, R Schon, W R Caraher, and D K Pettegrew. "The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape." Hesperia 75, no. 4 (2006): 453-523.



2.2 Working the Land



Lee, Wayne E. "Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part IV: Change and the Human Landscape in a Modern Greek Village in Messenia." Hesperia 70, no. 1 (2001): 49-98.



Given, Michael. "Agriculture, Settlement and Landscape in Ottoman Cyprus." Levant 32 (2000): 215-236.



Brumfield, Allaire. "Agriculture and Rural Settlement in Ottoman Crete, 1669-- 1898." In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Lynda Carroll and Uzi Baram. New York: Springer, 2002, 37-79.



Krahtopoulou, A. & Frederick, C. The stratigraphic implications of long-term terrace agriculture in dynamic landscapes: Polycyclic terracing from Kythera Island, Greece, Geoarchaeology, 23, no. 4 (2008), pp. 550-85.



Topic 3. Material Culture & Lifeways



3.1 Built Space

Pluciennik, Mark, Antoon Mientjes, and Enrico Giannitrapani. "Archaeologies of Aspiration: Historical Archaeology in Rural Central Sicily." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 8, no. 1 (2004): 27-65.



Saitas, Yanis. "Social and Spatial Organisation in the Peninsula of Mani (Southern Peleponnese): Medieval, Post-Medieval and Modern Times." In  Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece. The Corfu Papers. Edited by John L Bintliff and Hanna Stöger. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009, 133-152.



Sigalos, Lefteris. "Housing People in Medieval Greece." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 7, no. 3 (2003): 195-221.



Cerasi, Maurice. "The Formation of Ottoman House Types: A Comparative Study in Interaction with Neighboring Cultures." Muqarnas 15 (1998): 116-156.



Christie, N, P Beavitt, J G Santonja, V G Senís, and J Seguí. "Peopling the Recent Past in the Serra De L’Altmirant: Shepherds and Farmers at the Margins."  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 11, no. 4 (2007): 304-321.



3.2 Things to Live With

Vionis, Athanasios K. "The Archaeology of Ottoman Villages in Central Greece: Ceramics, Housing, and Everyday Life in Post-Medieval Rural Boeotia." In Studies  in Honor of Hayat Erkanal: Cultural Reflections. Istanbul: Homer Kitapevi, 2006, 784-800.



Vionis, Athanasios K. "Domestic Material Culture and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece: A Case Study From the Cyclades." Post-Medieval Archaeology 39, no. 1 (2005):   172-185.





Carroll, Lynda. "Toward An Archaeology of Non-Elite Consumption in Late Ottoman Anatolia." In A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Carroll, Lynda and Uzi Baram. New York: Springer, 2002, 161-180.



Vroom, Joanita. "Kütahya Between the Lines: Post-Medieval Ceramics As Historical Information." In Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece. Edited by Jack L Davis and Siriol Davies. 43 vols. Athens: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007, 71-95.



Topic 4. Goods-- Production & Trade

4.1 Production

Blitzer, Harriet. "ΚΟΡΩΝΕΙΚΑ: Storage-Jar Production and Trade in Traditional Aegean." Hesperia 59, no. 4 (1990): 675-511.



Kalentzidou, Olga. "Pots Crossing Borders: Ethnic Identity and Ceramics in Evros, Northeastern Greece." Near Eastern Archaeology (2000).



Costin, C L. "The Use of Ethnoarchaeology for the Archaeological Study of Ceramic Production." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 7, no. 4

(2000): 377-403.



Vroom, Joanita. “Research into Post-Roman Pottery in the Aegean: A Methodological-Historical Survey,” in After Antiquity : Ceramics and Society in  the Aegean from the 7th to 20th Century A.C.: A Case Study from Boeotia, Central Greece, Archaeological Studies Leiden University 10. Leiden: Faculty of Archaeology, University of Leiden, 2003, 31-48.





4.2 Commerce

Orser, C E. "World-Systems Theory, Networks, and Modern-World Archaeology."  International Handbook of Historical Archaeology (2009): 253-268.



Baram, Uzi. "Clay Tobacco Pipes and Coffee Cup Sherds in the Archaeology of the Middle East: Artifacts of Social Tensions From the Ottoman Past." International  Journal of Historical Archaeology 3, no. 3 (1999): 137-151.



Ward, Cheryl, and Uzi Baram. "Global Markets, Local Practice: Ottoman-Period Clay Pipes and Smoking Paraphernalia From the Red Sea Shipwreck at Sadana Island, Egypt ." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 10, no. 2 (2006):

135-158.



Mentovich, E D, D S Schreiber, Y Goren, Y Kahanov, H Goren, D Cvikel, and D Ashkenazi. "New Insights Regarding the Akko 1 Shipwreck: A Metallurgic and



Petrographic Investigation of the Cannonballs." Journal of Archaeological Science 37, no. 10 (2010): 2520-2528.



Topic 5. Cemeteries-- Social History of Death

Fahlander, Frederick, and Terje Oestigaard. "The Materiality of Death: Bones, Burials, Beliefs." In The Materiality of Death. Edited by Fahlander, Frederick. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2008, 1-18.



Rohn, A.H., E. Barnes, and G.D.R. Sandars. "An Early Ottoman Cemetery at Corinth." Hesperia 78, no. 4 (2009): 501-615.



Williams, Hector. “The Vampire of Lesbos,” Archaeology, 1994, p. 22.