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Description:: My dissertation is a study of imperial dynamics and borderlands of the Hittite Empire. The Hittite Empire dominated parts of what is now modern Turkey …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Durusu Tanriover, Muge (creator); Cherry, John (Director); Alcock, Susan (Reader); Glatz, Claudia (Reader); Harmanşah, Ömür (Reader); Rutz, Matthew (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Hittite Empire; Hittite Archaeology; Borderlands; Imperialism
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: My research seeks to clarify the nature of the glassmaking industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the 8th-12th centuries CE. Studying glass assemblages from …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Swan, Carolyn (creator); Cherry, John (Director); Alcock, Susan (Director); Bestock, Laurel (Reader); Straughn, Ian (Reader); Rehren, Thilo (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: glassmaking; archaeological science; post-Roman; Middle Byzantine; Early Islamic; Eastern Mediterranean; Glass; Technology; Industries; Archaeology; Archaeometry; Material culture; Middle East
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation applies notions of governmentality to resource landscapes in the Roman province of Asia Minor. My argument is that Roman techniques of governmentality, in …
Year:: 2012
Contributor:: Sekedat, Bradley Michael (creator); Cherry, John (Director); Alcock, Susan (Director); Houston, Stephen (Reader); Harmansah, Omur (Reader); Bonde, Sheila (Reader); Luke, Christina (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Rome; Quarries; Governance; Survey Archaeology; Marble; Quarries and quarrying; Rome (Empire)
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation employs aspects of network theory to study social complexity in the Euboean Gulf from the Mycenaean Palatial period through the Protohistoric Iron Age …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Knodell, Alex R. (creator); Cherry, John (Director); Alcock, Susan (Reader); Houston, Stephen (Reader); Papadopoulos, John (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Euboean Gulf; Aegean; Mediterranean; networks; interaction; complexity; Late Bronze Age; Early Iron Age; Archaeology; Complexity (Philosophy); Mediterranean Region
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This study investigates the origins and variable nature of inequality in pre-hierarchical Central Mediterranean communities between the 4th and 1st millennia BC. The arguments for …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Vella, Clive (creator); Cherry, John (Director); van Dommelen, Peter (Director); Scherer, Andrew (Reader); Robb, John (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: inequality; social complexity; prehistory; Central Mediterranean; Archaeology; Equality; Prehistoric peoples
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation examines how colonizing populations of prehistoric food-producing communities adapted to small-island contexts. Taking the Neolithic colonization of the Cyclades (5,000 – 3,200 BC) …
Year:: 2013
Contributor:: Leppard, Thomas P (creator); Cherry, John (Director); van Dommelen, Peter (Reader); Houston, Stephen (Reader); Alcock, Susan (Reader); Fitzpatrick, Scott (Reader); Brown University. Archaeology and the Ancient World (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Island archaeology; Caribbean; Mediterranean; adaptation; behavioral ecology
Language:: English
Collection:: Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World; Graduate Research; Theses and Dissertations

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