The ancient city
Subtitle: new perspectives on urbanism in the old and new world
By: edited by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
Contributors: Marcus, Joyce.; Sabloff, Jeremy A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research resident scholar series; School for Advanced Research resident scholar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe, N.M
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781934691021
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: "Ancient cities have much to tell us about the social, political, religious, and economic conditions of their times - and also about our own. Ongoing excavations all over the world are enabling scholars to document intra-city changes through time, city-to-city interaction, and changing relations between cities and their hinterlands. As the essays in this volume reveal, archaeologists now know much more about the founding and functions of ancient cities, their diverse trade networks, their heterogeneous plans and layouts, and their various lifespans and trajectories."--Jacket.
Notes: "This publication results from an Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, "Early cities: new perspectives on pre-industrial urbanism," held May 18-20, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-394) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff; title: The city through time and space : transformations of centrality / Colin Renfrew; title: Early cities : craft workers, kings, and controlling the supernatural / Bruce G. Trigger; title: Analyzing cities / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: Other perspectives on urbanism : beyond the disciplinary boundaries / Karl W. Butzer; title: Between concept and reality : case studies in the development of Roman cities in the Mediterranean / Janet DeLaine; title: Urban foundation, planning, and sustainability in the Roman northwestern provinces / Michael J. Jones; title: A tale of two cities : lowland Mesopotamia and highland Anatolia / Elizabeth C. Stone; title: Royal cities and cult centers, administrative towns, and workmen's settlements in ancient Egypt / Kathryn A. Bard; title: Indus urbanism : new perspectives on its origin and character / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer; title: Stages in the development of "cities" in pre-imperial China / Lothar von Falkenhausen; title: Early African cities : their role in the shaping of urban and rural interaction spheres / Chapurukha M. Kusimba; title: Pomp and circumstance before Belize : ancient Maya commerce and the new river conurbation / K. Anne Pyburn; title: Incidental urbanism : the structure of the prehispanic city in central Mexico / Kenneth G. Hirth; title: Links in the chain of Inka cities : communication, alliance, and the cultural production of status, value, and power / Craig Morris; title: Cities and urbanism : central themes and future directions / Joyce Marcus and Jeremy A. Sabloff.