Coming Together

Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleation's origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-01-02
Mått178 x 254 x 22 mm
Vikt671 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, The Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series
Antal sidor402
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438472768

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Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik

Illustrations 1. Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the VolumeAttila Gyucha 2. Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and UrbanizationMichael E. Smith Part I. Coming Together: Origins and Processes 3. "... the nearest run thing..." The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Polity in the Maros Valley of Southeastern EuropeJohn M. O'Shea and Amy Nicodemus 4. Coming Together in the Iron Age: Population Aggregation and Urban Dynamics in Temperate EuropeManuel Fernandez-Gotz 5. Contextualizing Aggregation and Nucleation as Demographic Processes Leading to Cahokia's Emergence as an Incipient Urban CenterJohn E. Kelly 6. Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron AgeRobin Osborne 7. Synoikismos: Formation and Form of Ancient Greek CitiesBradley A. AultPart II. Pathways to Sustainability: Challenges and Resolutions 8. Trypillia Megasites: The First Cities in Europe?Bisserka Gaydarska 9. Emergent Urbanism: Trade, Settlement, and Society at Seyitomer Hoyuk in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia Laura K. Harrison and A. Nejat Bilgen 10. If You Build It, Will They Come? Will They Stay? The Mycenaean Port Town of KalamianosDaniel J. Pullen11. Architectural Visibility as an Integrating Mechanism in Roman Urbanism: Micro-Viewshed Analysis at PompeiiAlan KaiserPart III. Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change 12. Cross-Scale Settlement Morphologies and Social Formations in the Neolithic of the Great Hungarian PlainPal Raczky 13. Aggregation and Dispersal: Rural Landscapes of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age to the Early Roman EmpireInes Sastre and Brais Curras 14. Integration and Disintegration: The Role of Kiva Architecture in Community Formation during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III Periods in the U.S. SouthwestSusan C. Ryan 15. Settlement Aggregation and Geopolitical Realignment in the Northeastern WoodlandsJennifer Birch ContributorsIndex