This research investigates relations between economic structure and technology at a fourth millennium B.C. Uruk period town, with the goal of understanding how the productive enterprises of a particular town shaped the technological strategies of its residents. The Uruk period w…
While the Shakers are associated in North American with simplicity and communalism, an examination of Shaker history reveals a dynamic and complex society. Shaker life was structured by a powerful metanarrative: the Shakers were the 'Chosen People of God,' who lived in 'His Prom…
This dissertation examines the economic, social and political life of La Plana, an area associated with an extensive irrigation system at the mouth of the Millars river in eastern Spain, in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. This was part of a new kingdom establi…
This thesis aims to understand the building materials and construction techniques utilized in the traditional houses of the villages in Karaburun Peninsula; Küçükbahçe and Kösedere in particular. With this aim, a preliminary study is carried out in 13 historical villages of the …