TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Monica L.
TI  - The social construction of ancient cities
SN  - 1588340988 (alk. paper)
AV  - HT 114 .S635 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Smithsonian Institution Press
KW  - Cities and towns, Ancient
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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