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Zusatztext this volume provides a stimulating discussion of a range of different urbanisation processes, and presents a remarkably coherent set of papers which should go some considerable way to re-establishing the study of urbanisation as an important topic for our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 a discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Robin Osborne: Urban Sprawl: What is Urbanization and Why does it Matter? 2: Maria Iacovou: The Early Iron Age Urban Forms of Cyprus 3: François de Polignac: Forms and Processes: Some Thoughts on the Meaning of Urbanization in Early Archaiac Greece 4: Tom Rasmussen: Urbanization in Etruria 5: Christopher Smith: The Begininngs of Urnaization in Rome 6: Peter Attema: Early Urbanization Between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine Region (South Lazion), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (northern Calabria) 7: Peter van Dommelen: Urban Foundations? Colonial Settlement and Urbanization in the Western Mediterranean 8: Domenique Garcia: Urbanization and Spatial Organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age 9: Maria Eugenia Aubet: Mainake: the Legend and the New Archaeological Evidence 10: Corinna Riva: The Culture of Urbanization in the Mediterranean C. 800 - 600 BC 11: Lin Foxhall: Village to City: Staples and Luxuries? Exchange Networks and Urbanization 12: Nicholas Purcell: Statics and Dynamics: Ancient Mediterranean Urbanism ...
