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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Anatolia"”.
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A Study of Fifth Century Persian Administration in Western Anatolia and Eber Nari
The Persian Empire and the Persian period are important fields of historical study. Their art and language became the standard for the whole ancient near east. The Persians developed a pattern of culture whose influence is still felt today. The Persian period has two distinct features which has set …
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Beyond the Classical Landscape: Representing Greece and Anatolia in British Illustrated Books, 1832-1882
… to see and conceive the landscapes of Greece and Anatolia. Working to nuance the idea that British audiences regarded these locations exclusively through the lens of idealised antiquity, this project examines different strategies for mediating place in books illustrated with lithographs and wood …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
This dissertation analyses the discursive process through which British famine relief advocates weighed competing claims to humanitarian assistance from famine-affected communities in different regions of the world in the 1870s: namely, during the famines in Bihar (1873–1874), Asia Minor …
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Wild Women of Anatolia: The Critical Construct Validity of the Liberation of Women in Turkey
<p>Feminist, sexuality and social psychology researchers studying women’s liberation in Turkey have solely focused on freedoms denied, outlining <em>freedoms from</em> gendered political, institutional and intimate constraints such as domestic violence, without much attention to freedoms desired, …
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The crust and upper mantle structure of eastern Anatolia, Turkey from gravity modeling constrained by seismic data
The Eastern Anatolian region is part of a young continental collision zone between the Arabian and Eurasian plates. The lithosphere in Eastern Anatolia is underlain by a low-velocity zone associated with asthenospheric flow in the upper mantle. The asthenospheric flow might have been caused by …
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Conditions of the Oral Cavity in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Reconstruction of Dietary Behavior, Biological Impact, and Social Structure
The Early Bronze Age (EBA; 3000-2000 BCE) in Anatolia is recognized as a period of increased social stratification, expansive trade, urbanization, agricultural intensification, craft specialization in metallurgy, and socioeconomic shifts. This combination of sociocultural and sociopolitical changes …
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Where Xerxes’ Throne Once Stood: Gazing with Herodotus at the Persian Invasion in the Landscapes of Greece and Anatolia
Contains fulltext : 182830.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Scourge or Sustenance: Using microfauna to explore the palaeoenvironment and palaeoeconomics of Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic communities in Anatolia.
… from three important sites in Central Anatolia which straddle the end of the Pleistocene and the beginning of the Holocene were analysed. The sites studied were: Çatalhöyük, a large proto-urban settlement (c7100-5950 cal. BCE); Boncuklu Höyük, a small early Neolithic village (c8300-7800 …
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Closure of the Neotethys Ocean in Anatolia : structural, petrologic and geochronologic insights from low-grade high-pressure metasediments, Afyon Zone
… is particularly the case of Western and Central Anatolia, where a continental fragment was accreted to the southern composite margin of the Eurasia sometime between the Late Cretaceous and the early Cenozoic. The most frontal part of this microcontinent experienced subduction-related metamorphism …
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Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolia: Implications for Cultural/Regional Interaction and Craftmanship
… the Greek mainland, the Greek islands, Cyprus, Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine. An exhaustive database of 5300+ tools was compiled from these regions and time frame. While copper and copper-alloy implements are attested in the third millennium and earlier, the significant advancement of the …
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Multifaced stone and ceramic moulds from Bronze Age Anatolia : building an analytical protocol of mould properties and behavior during the process of metal casting
… bronze-casting moulds from Bronze Age Anatolia (ca. 3500-1700 B.C.). These moulds represent a class of metal processing tools that reflect material properties and perhaps also social concerns in their development and use. In phase I of the protocol, standard serpentinite tiles are …
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A model of the crust and upper mantle structure of the Hellenic and Cyprus subduction zones constrained by gravity and seismic data
The Aegean-Anatolian region is one of the most dynamically complex and seismically active tectonic settings on Earth. The dynamic evolution of this region is dominated by the African plate subduction along the Hellenic and Cyprus trenches and collision between the Anatolian and Eurasian plates. The …
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The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
… of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
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Anatolian Ceramics: A Reflection of Society and Culture
… This paper focuses on the history of pottery in Anatolia (Asia Minor, present day Turkey). One of the culturally richest areas in the Mediterranean, Anatolia is nestled between Europe, Asia, and Africa. This region is especially known for its remarkable and lengthy history of ceramic production, …
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Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space
… range from Thrace to Central and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey from 1920-2000.
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Change and permanence of urban open spaces : analysis of change and permanence of open space patterns in expanding urban environments
… of the study. A case study from southwest Anatolia is introduced in the second chapter and analysis is done for the assessment of the range of change in this particular case. The third chapter is conclusive and attempts to produce alternative design guidelines for future development of the …
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The Paradox and Contradictions in Cultural Value and Exchange Worth of Anatolian Hand-crafted Wool Felted Textiles
… textile making customs and practices of the Anatolian region of Turkey, which mediates tradition in a contemporary context. In progressing the aims of the research project underpinning the thesis it was necessary to undertake both field work, learning the felt makers' practices, and to …
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Alevi and Sunni in rural Turkey : diverse paths of change
… toward our knowledge of changes in contemporary Anatolia in a coherent way, the second to provide the first systematic ethnographic account of the Alevi, a Shiite minority living in rural Turkey. From March 1988 until November 1989, I conducted fieldwork in a sub-province in the north-eastern …
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