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The social construction of ancient cities

Author: Monica L Smith
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©2003.
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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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