Coming Together

Attila Gyucha is Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the author of Prehistoric Village Social Dynamics: the Early Copper Age in the Körös Region.

• 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