Introduction to Islamic Landscape Archaeology (summer term 2019)
Prof Bethany Walker
Seven sessions, Tuesday/Friday, 3.00 to 5.00 pm CET
First session: Friday, March 01, 2019
Last session: Tuesday, April 16, 2019
This 7-week webinar serves as an introduction to the methodologies of and project designs for Islamic landscape archaeology, using an ongoing field project in the Jerusalem region. In an innovative form of instruction, the course will be taught “from the field”, making use of taped broadcasts caught by bodycam during excavation and survey. The Medieval Jerusalem Hinterland Project is a multidisciplinary study of a Mamluk- and Ottoman-period farmstead in its terraced agricultural landscape.
This webinar is part of the "Webinar Initiative in Islamic Material Culture" jointly organized by the Universität Bonn (Bethany Walker), the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich (Andreas Kaplony), NYU in New York (Abigail Krasner Balbale), and Universität Hamburg (Stefan Heidemann).