The social construction of ancient cities / edited by Monica L. Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c2003.Description: xiii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1588340988 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT 114 .S635 2003
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.
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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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