ANAR 165. Marine and Coastal Archaeology and the Biblical Seas (4 units)
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Description
This course will follow the interaction between humans and the sea in cultures that formed the biblical world of the second and first millennium BCE: the Canaanites, Israelites, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Philistines, and cultures of the Aegean Sea. Themes discussed will be maritime matters in the Canaanite and biblical narrative, key discoveries in maritime coastal archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean, shipwrecks: Canaanite, Phoenician, and Aegean, Egyptian ports, and Egyptian sea adventures. Prerequisites: upper-division standing.
Prerequisite courses
ANAR 165 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have ANAR 165 as a prerequisite.