The social construction of ancient cities /
edited by Monica L. Smith.
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2003.
- xiii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The social construction of ancient cities / Teotihuacan: cosmic glories and mundane needs / The spatial patterns of everyday life in old Babylonian neighborhoods / Life behind walls: patterns in the urban landscape on the prehistoric north coast of Peru / Early urban configurations on the middle Niger: clustered cities and landscapes of power / Untangling the ties that bind: the city, the countryside, and the nature of Maya urbanism at Xunantunich, Belize / Food provisioning in urban societies: a view from northern Mesopotamia / Cities as a place of ethnogenesis: urban growth and centralization in the Chicama Valley, Peru / The moral community: Maya settlement transformation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala / Urban social transformations and the problem of the "first city": new research from Mesopotamia / Early walled cities of the Indian subcontinent as "small worlds" / Compromises and conflicts: production and commerce in the royal cities of Eastern Zhou, China / Monica L. Smith -- George L. Cowgill -- Kathryn Keith -- Jerry D. Moore -- Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh -- Jason Yeager -- Melinda A. Zeder -- Christopher J. Attarian -- Stephen Houston ... [et al.] -- Geoff Emberling -- Monica L. Smith -- Chen Shen. Introduction: