The social construction of ancient cities /
| Other Authors: | Smith, Monica L. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Washington, D.C. :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
c2003.
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| Online Access: |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction:
- The social construction of ancient cities /
- Monica L. Smith
- Teotihuacan: cosmic glories and mundane needs /
- George L. Cowgill
- The spatial patterns of everyday life in old Babylonian neighborhoods /
- Kathryn Keith
- Life behind walls: patterns in the urban landscape on the prehistoric north coast of Peru /
- Jerry D. Moore
- Early urban configurations on the middle Niger: clustered cities and landscapes of power /
- Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh
- Untangling the ties that bind: the city, the countryside, and the nature of Maya urbanism at Xunantunich, Belize /
- Jason Yeager
- Food provisioning in urban societies: a view from northern Mesopotamia /
- Melinda A. Zeder
- Cities as a place of ethnogenesis: urban growth and centralization in the Chicama Valley, Peru /
- Christopher J. Attarian
- The moral community: Maya settlement transformation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala /
- Stephen Houston ... [et al.]
- Urban social transformations and the problem of the "first city": new research from Mesopotamia /
- Geoff Emberling
- Early walled cities of the Indian subcontinent as "small worlds" /
- Monica L. Smith
- Compromises and conflicts: production and commerce in the royal cities of Eastern Zhou, China /
- Chen Shen.