From Prehistoric Villages to Cities: Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367868253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 226 str.

Jennifer Birch

Opis

Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development lies a critical stage in social and politica

Spis treści

1. Between Villages and Cities: Settlement Aggregation in Cross-Cultural Perspective Jennifer Birch  2. The Anatomy of a Prehistoric Community: Reconsidering Çatalhöyük Bleda S. Düring  3. Coming Together, Falling Apart: A Multi-Scalar Approach to Prehistoric Aggregation and Interaction on the Great Hungarian Plain Paul R. Duffy William A. Parkinson, Attila Gyucha and Richard W. Yerkes   4. Social Organization and Aggregated Settlement Structure in an Archaic Greek City on Crete (ca. 600 BC)Donald C. Haggis   5. Appropriating Community: Platforms and Power on the Formative Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia Robin A. Beck, Jr.  6. Social Integration and the Built Environment of Aggregated Communities in the North American Puebloan Southwest Alison E. Rautman  7. Competition and Cooperation: Late Classic Period Aggregation in the Southern Tucson Basin  Henry D. Wallace and Michael W. Lindeman  8. Organizational Complexity in Ancestral Wendat Communities Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson  9. Community Aggregation through Public Architecture: Cherokee Townhouses Christopher B. Rodning  10. The Work of Making Community Stephen A. Kowalewski

O autorze

Jennifer Birch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, USA.