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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Monica L Smith |
| ISBN: | 1588340988 9781588340986 |
| OCLC Number: | 50425142 |
| Description: | xiii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 Yaeger -- 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Monica L. Smith. |
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