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Pompeiian Mill-Bakeries: Spatial Organization And Social Interaction, Madeleine Rubin May 2024

Pompeiian Mill-Bakeries: Spatial Organization And Social Interaction, Madeleine Rubin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis examines bread production and the daily lives of those who worked in mill-bakeries during the first century CE. Bread was the staple food across the ancient Mediterranean; however, there is little textual evidence about those who produced the bread that fed the Roman Empire. The most significant body of evidence relating to the lives of mill-bakers is the archaeological remains of mill-bakeries from the city of Pompeii, preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. This thesis analyzes the spatial organization of bread production within these mill-bakeries and applies the methodologies of spatial syntax – a …


All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen Jan 1995

All Sorts Of China Ware Large, Noble And Rich Chinese Bowls: Eighteenth-Century Chinese Export Porcelain In Virginia, David Andrew Madsen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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Paintings As Information: The Anthropology Of Images: A Consideration Of Late Sixteenth And Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Painting In Relation To Foodways And Historical Archeology, Melissa Payne Jan 1985

Paintings As Information: The Anthropology Of Images: A Consideration Of Late Sixteenth And Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Painting In Relation To Foodways And Historical Archeology, Melissa Payne

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