Title & Author:

Mediterranean urbanization, 800-600 BC / edited by Robin Osborne & Barry Cunliffe.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, ©2005.

Description:

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 126

Notes:
"Published for the British Academy."
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.

Summary:

Urban life as we know it in the Mediterranean began in the early Iron Age; settlements of great size and internal diversity appear in the archaeological record. 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.

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ISBN:

0197263259 (hbk.)
9780197263259

Subject:

Urbanization Mediterranean Region History.
Human settlements Mediterranean Region History.
Social archaeology Mediterranean Region.
Human settlements
Social archaeology
Urbanization
Stadtforschung
Verstädterung
Gründung
Stadt
Urbanisme Mediterrània, Regió Fins al 476.
Assentaments humans Mediterrània, Regió Fins al 476.
Arqueologia Mediterrània, Regió Fins al 476.
Cities and towns, Ancient Mediterranean Region.
Urbanization Mediterranean Region History To 500.
Mediterranean Region History To 476.
Méditerranée, Région de la Histoire Jusqu'à 476.
Mediterranean Region
Mittelmeerraum
Mediterrània, Regió Història Fins al 476.
Mediterranean Region Population To 500.
Mediterranean Region Antiquities.
Mediterranean urbanization

Form/genre:

Kongress London 2001.
History

Added entries:

Osborne, Robin, 1957- editor, translator.
Cunliffe, Barry W., editor.
Turton, Mary, translator.
British Academy.
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 126.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247714
Call No.: DE86 .M43 2005
Status: Available