Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SANAT TARIHI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF ART HISTORY, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.391-433, 2021 (ESCI)
Human beings, who want to protect themselves against threats and dangers that may come from outside, have researched and developed different defense methods throughout history. This search, which has become a necessity in the historical process, has led to the emergence of different defense practices and defense structures. Defense structures, which are one of the important sources that shed light on the experiences of past civilizations and one of the building blocks of the architectural heritage, allow access to information about the defense history and technologies of societies, as well as contribute to comment on their social, cultural and economic structures. These defensive structure, which were built to protect from various effects of nature, predators or aggressive groups starting from the primitive periods, differ depending on the development level of the societies and the geographical features of the region. Changing combat techniques and technologies have accelerated the transformation, renewal and development of defense structures in the process.