From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation
Herausgeber: Birch, Jennifer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 political evolution. Throughout world, at various points in time, people living in small, dispersed village communities have come together into larger and more complex social formations. These community aggregates were, essentially, middle-range; situated between the earliest villages and emergent chiefdoms and states. This volume explores the social processes involved in the creation and maintenance of aggregated communities and how they brought about revolutionary transformations that affected virtually every aspect of a society and its culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415836616
• ISBN-10: 0415836611
• Artikelnr.: 36933387

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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