Coming together : comparative approaches to population aggregation and early urbanization / edited by Attila Gyucha.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Figures; Tables; Chapter One Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the Volume; Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Nucleated Settlements; Methodological Perspectives in the Study of Nucleated Settlements; Coming Together: Origins and Processes; Pathways to Sustainability: Challenges and Resolutions; Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change; Final Remarks; Acknowledgments; References Cited

Chapter Two Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and UrbanizationCities, Population, and Energized Crowding: The Power of Face-to-Face Interactions; Population Size and Density; Village Aggregation and Urbanization; Communication, Energized Crowding, and Cities; The Effects of Energized Crowding; Energized Crowding Generates Scalar Stress; Energized Crowding Drives Community Formation; Energized Crowding Leads to Economic and Urban Growth; Settlement Scaling and Generative Processes; Contemporary Urban Systems; The Social Reactors Model

Expansion of the Framework to Premodern Settlement SystemsDiscussion; Acknowledgments; Note; References Cited; Section I: Coming Together: Origins and Processes; Chapter Three ". . . the nearest run thing . . ." The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Polity in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe; The Problem with Population; Pecica Şanţul Mare and the Maros Culture; Settlement Expansion, Aggregation, and Dispersal in the Maros Region; The Rise and Fall of Pecica Şanţul Mare; The Initial Period: 1950-1900 B.C.; The Formative Period: 1900-1820 B.C.; The Florescent Period: 1820-1680 B.C.

Final Phase: 1680-1545 B.C. Discussion; Acknowledgments; Note; References Cited; Chapter Four Coming Together in the Iron Age: Population Aggregation and Urban Dynamics in Temperate Europe; Early Urbanism in Temperate Europe: The Fürstensitze; Times of Turmoil: Toward Decentralization; Urbanization in the Late Iron Age: Open Agglomerations and Oppida; Retrospective and Prospective: Iron Age Urbanization as a Nonlinear Phenomenon; References Cited; Chapter Five Contextualizing Aggregation and Nucleation as Demographic Processes Leading to Cahokia's Emergence as an Incipient Urban Center

Cahokia as an Urban CenterNatural and Cultural Setting of Cahokia; Aggregation and Nucleation; Late Woodland Settlement Aggregation; The Emergent Mississippian and the Shift from Aggregation to Nucleation; Settlement Aggregation during the Early Emergent Mississippian; Late Emergent Mississippian Nucleation; The Emergent Mississippian Nucleation and the Onset of Cahokia as a City; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References Cited; Chapter Six Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron Age; Introduction; The Literary Evidence and the Question of Synoecism

The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleation's origins, pathways to sustsainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.

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