Mediterranean urbanization, 800-600 BC
Cunliffe, Barry WContributor
Osborne, RobinContributor
British AcademyContent Provider
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2005.
This collection of essays offers a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain. Leading scholars in the field look critically at what is meant by urbanization.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This collection of essays offers a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain. Leading scholars in the field look critically at what is meant by urbanization.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Urban sprawl : what is urbanization and why does it matter? / Robin Osborne -- The early iron age urban forms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou -- Forms and processes : some thoughts on the meaning of urbanization in early Archaic Greece / François de Polignac (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Urbanization in Etruria / Tom Rasmussen -- The beginnings of urbanization in Rome / Christopher Smith -- Early urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine region (South Lazio), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria) / Peter Attema -- Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanization in the Western Mediterranean / Peter Van Dommelen -- Urbanization and spatial organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age / Dominique Garcia (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Mainake : the legend and the new archaeological evidence / Maria Eugenia Aubet (translated by Mary Turton) -- The culture of urbanization in the Mediterranean c.800-600 BC / Corninna Riva -- Village to city : staples and luxuries? Exchange networks and urbanization / Lin Foxhall -- Statics and dynamics : ancient Mediterranean urbanism / Nicholas Purcell.
Urbanization
Human settlements
Social archaeology
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Mediterranean Region & Greco-Roman World