Mediterranean urbanization 800-600 BC
By: edited by Robin Osborne & Barry Cunliffe.
Contributors: Osborne, Robin, 1957-; Cunliffe, Barry W.; British Academy.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy -- 126
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780197263259
Subjects: Urbanization -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476; Human settlements -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476; Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476
Description: "This collection of essays offers for the first time 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, and analyse the social processes that lead to the development of social complexity and the growth of towns." "Wide ranging in its geographical coverage, this volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of archaeology, settlement studies, the archaic period and geographers interested in the history of urban forms."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "Published for the British Academy."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Urban sprawl: what is urbanization and why does it matter? / Robin Osborne; title: The early iron age urban forms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou; title: Forms and processes: some thoughts on the meaning of urbanization in early Archaic Greece / François de Polignac (translated by Robin Osborne); title: Urbanization in Etruria / Tom Rasmussen; title: The beginnings of urbanization in Rome / Christopher Smith; title: Early urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine region (South Lazio), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria) / Peter Attema; title: Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanization in the Western Mediterranean / Peter Van Dommelen; title: Urbanization and spatial organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age / Dominique Garcia (translated by Robin Osborne); title: Mainake: the legend and the new archaeological evidence / Maria Eugenia Aubet (translated by Mary Turton); title: The culture of urbanization in the Mediterranean c.800-600 BC / Corinna Riva; title: Village to city: staples and luxuries? Exchange networks and urbanization / Lin Foxhall; title: Statics and dynamics: Ancient Mediterranean urbanism / Nicholas Purcell.