Coming Together
Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization
Published on 2. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
402 pages
978-1-4384-7276-8 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
46 Figures; 15 Tables, black and white; 38 Maps; 4 Illustrations, black and white
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
757 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-7276-8 (9781438472768)
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Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization
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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 Koeroes Region.
Content
Illustrations
1. Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the Volume
Attila Gyucha
2. Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization
Michael 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 Europe
John M. O'Shea and Amy Nicodemus
4. Coming Together in the Iron Age: Population Aggregation and Urban Dynamics in Temperate Europe
Manuel Fernandez-Gotz
5. Contextualizing Aggregation and Nucleation as Demographic Processes Leading to Cahokia's Emergence as an Incipient Urban Center
John E. Kelly
6. Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron Age
Robin Osborne
7. Synoikismos: Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities
Bradley A. Ault
Part 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 Kalamianos
Daniel J. Pullen
11. Architectural Visibility as an Integrating Mechanism in Roman Urbanism: Micro-Viewshed Analysis at Pompeii
Alan Kaiser
Part III. Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change
12. Cross-Scale Settlement Morphologies and Social Formations in the Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain
Pal Raczky
13. Aggregation and Dispersal: Rural Landscapes of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age to the Early Roman Empire
Ines 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. Southwest
Susan C. Ryan
15. Settlement Aggregation and Geopolitical Realignment in the Northeastern Woodlands
Jennifer Birch
Contributors
Index
1. Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the Volume
Attila Gyucha
2. Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization
Michael 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 Europe
John M. O'Shea and Amy Nicodemus
4. Coming Together in the Iron Age: Population Aggregation and Urban Dynamics in Temperate Europe
Manuel Fernandez-Gotz
5. Contextualizing Aggregation and Nucleation as Demographic Processes Leading to Cahokia's Emergence as an Incipient Urban Center
John E. Kelly
6. Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron Age
Robin Osborne
7. Synoikismos: Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities
Bradley A. Ault
Part 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 Kalamianos
Daniel J. Pullen
11. Architectural Visibility as an Integrating Mechanism in Roman Urbanism: Micro-Viewshed Analysis at Pompeii
Alan Kaiser
Part III. Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change
12. Cross-Scale Settlement Morphologies and Social Formations in the Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain
Pal Raczky
13. Aggregation and Dispersal: Rural Landscapes of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age to the Early Roman Empire
Ines 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. Southwest
Susan C. Ryan
15. Settlement Aggregation and Geopolitical Realignment in the Northeastern Woodlands
Jennifer Birch
Contributors
Index