CONSERVATION OF RURAL PRODUCTION SPACES WITHIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SETTINGS: THE LONG-ESTABLISHED TRADITION OF OLIVE OIL PRODUCTION AND ITS HERITAGE AT IASOS/KIYIKIŞLACIK (MUĞLA)

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2025-12-01

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Gökhan, Ayşenur

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The Iasos/Kıyıkışlacık (Muğla) settlement comprises a heritage site where the ancient city of Iasos overlaps with the modern rural settlement of Kıyıkışlacık. This area preserves a long-established tradition of olive oil production. Three 20th-century olive mills represent this tradition's transitional phase from ancient to modern industrial methods. Today, these mills are abandoned, undocumented and at the risk of deterioration within the 1st grade archaeological site, causing a loss of architectural material and social memory. This thesis aims to interpret these three rural production spaces and develop a sustainable conservation framework. The methodology integrates theoretical research on rural and industrial heritage with a detailed case study. The latter employed archival research, site surveys and in-depth interviews with local community members to capture social memory. A value-based assessment was then used to analyze their significance, as well as the threats and opportunities facing them. The analysis identifies the mills' critical cultural values, rooted in production continuity, architectural significance, and collective memory. Building on this assessment, the thesis culminates in a set of conservation strategies for the sustainable preservation of the mills as community assets. These strategies link a community-based management model with context-specific reuse proposals aiming to reactivate the buildings. The resulting proposal is presented as a means to reinforce cultural continuity and strengthen the relationship between the settlement's heritage and its present existence.

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Iasos/Kıyıkışlacık, Rural Heritage, Industrial Heritage, Rural Production Spaces

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/118243

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis