students will

1) learn the nature of archaeological evidence in south-west Asia with a specific focus on Anatolia.

2) learn the development of theory and method in Anatolian archaeology

3) learn the major questions that drive research in different time periods of Anatolian archaeology

4) learn the contribution of culture-historical, processual, post-processual and the new materiality approaches to  the construction of major questions and their interpretation

5) learn to focus on a basic research issue and critically evaluate the existing interpretive frames with regard to this issue.