The Urban mind
Subtitle: cultural and environmental dynamics
By: edited by Paul J.J. Sinclair ... [et al.].
Contributors: Nordquist, Gullög; Herschend, Frands; Isendahl, Christian; Wrang, Laura; Uppsala universitet. Afrikansk och jämförande arkeologi; Uppsala universitet. Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia
Series: Studies in global archaeology -- 15; Studies in global archaeology -- 15.
Publisher: African and Comparative Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Uppsala, Sweden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9789150621754
Subjects: Ancient Cities and towns; Urbanization; History; Culture and globalization; City dwellers; Ancient Civilization
Notes: "Uppsala Universitet"--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Urban mind: a thematic introduction  -- Paul J.J. Sinclair; title: Climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the Holocene  -- Martin Finné and Karin Holmgren; title: Cultural interaction and cognitive expressions in the formation of Ancient Near Eastern societies  -- Kristina J. Hesse; title: Climate change, ecology and early sedentism in interaction: visible traces of the early urban mind in Continental and Northern Europe  -- Julia Mattes; title: Cities and urban landscapes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt with special focus on the city of Babylon  -- Olof Pedersén, Paul J.J. Sinclair, Irmgard Hein and Jakob Andersson; title: Social and environmental dynamics in Bronze and Iron Age Greece  -- Erika Weiberg, Michael Lindblom, Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg and Gullög Nordquist; title: Urban mind is the normalcy of urbanity  -- Svante Fischer and Frands Herschend; title: Role of natural phenomena in the rise and fall of urban areas in the Sistan Basin on the Iranian Plateau (Southern Delta)  -- Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz; title: Concepts of the city-state in Ancient Greece  -- Susanne Carlsson; title: Long-term resilience: the reconstruction of the Ancient Greek polis of Kos after earthquakes in the period c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE  -- Kerstin Höghammar; title: Fall and decline of the Roman urban mind  -- Svante Fischer, Hans Lejdegård and Helena Victor; title: Why are the so-called dead cities of Northern Syria dead?  -- Witold Witakowski; title: Lost in the city: an essay on Christian attitudes towards urbanism in Late Antiquity  -- Mats Eskhult; title: Constantinople in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages  -- Ewa Balicka-Witakowska; title: Urban Anthropocene: lessons for sustainability from the environmental history of Constantinople -- John Ljungkvist, Stephan Barthel, Göran Finnveden and Sverker Sörlin; title: Innovative memory and resilient cities: echoes from Ancient Constantinople  -- Stephan Barthel, Sverker Sörlin and John Ljungkvist; title: What's in a name? Mistra -- the town  -- Gullög Nordquist; title: Linguistic landscape of Istanbul in the seventeenth century  -- Éva Á. Csató, Bernt Brendemoen, Lars Johanson, Claudia Römer and Heidi Stein; title: Multilingualism and language contact in Urban centers along the Silk Road during the first millennium AD  -- Christiane Schaefer; title: Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi literature?  -- Carina Jahani; title: 'James His Towne' and village nations: cognitive urbanism in early colonial America  -- Neil Price; title: Early urbanism in Scandinavia  -- Charlotta Hillerdal; title: Greening the ancient city: the Agro-Urban landscapes of the pre-Hispanic Maya  -- Christian Isendahl; title: Southeast Asian urban minds: an example from Laos  -- Anna Karlström; title: Conceptualising the urban mind in pre-European Southern Africa: rethinking Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe  -- Munyaradzi Manyanga, Innocent Pikirayi and Shadreck Chirikure; title: Towards an archaeology of the future: the urnab mind, energy regimes and long-term settlement system dynamics on the Zimbabwe Plateau -- Paul J.J. Sinclair.