Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BCRobin Osborne, Barry Cunliffe, British Academy OUP/British Academy, 27/10/2005 - 279 من الصفحات 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. The introduction to the volume focuses on the history of the archaeology of urbanization and argues that proper understanding of the phenomenon demands loose and flexible criteria for what is termed a 'town'. The following eight chapters examine the development of individual settlements and patterns of urban settlement in Cyprus, Greece, Etruria, Latium, southern Italy, Sardinia, southern France and Spain. These chapters not only provide a general review of current knowledge of urban settlements of this period, but also raise significant issues of urbanization and the economy, urbanization and political organization, and of the degree of regionalism and diversity to be found within individual towns. The three analytical chapters which conclude this collection look more broadly at the town as a cultural phenomenon that has to be related to wider cultural trends, as an economic phenomenon that has to be related to changes in the Mediterranean economy and as a dynamic phenomenon, not merely a point on the map. 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. |
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The Early Iron Age Urban Forms of Cyprus | 17 |
Some Thoughts on the Meaning | 45 |
Urbanization in Etruria | 71 |
The Beginnings of Urbanization in Rome | 91 |
Early Urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine | 113 |
Urban Foundations? Colonial Settlement and Urbanization | 143 |
Urbanization and Spatial Organization in Southern France | 169 |
the Legend and the New Archaeological Evidence | 187 |
The Culture of Urbanization in the Mediterranean c 800600 BC | 203 |
Staples and Luxuries? Exchange Networks | 233 |
Ancient Mediterranean Urbanism | 249 |
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agora Alban hills ancient antiquity Archaeology Archaic period architecture Athens Attema Aubet British Academy burials Carandini cemeteries Central Italy Cerro del Villar circuit wall Classical colonial settlements context cult cultural curiae Cyprus Damgaard Andersen earliest Early Iron Age eighth century élite Enkomi Etruria Etruscan excavations fibulae Figure foundation Francavilla Marittima Greco Greece Greek colonies Iacovou Iberian important indigenous island Italy Karageorghis Kition Kourion landscape Lanuvium Late Bronze Age Late Cypriote Latial Latium Lazio Leusen Mainake Malaka Mediterranean Megara Hyblaea monumental necropolis organization Palaipaphos Periplous Phoenician Phoenician colonial Polignac polis political Pontine region population pottery proto-urban protohistorical Roman Rome Salamis Salento Salento Isthmus sanctuary Sardinia Satricum Schulten seventh century Sibaritide sixth century BC Snodgrass social society South space survey Sybaris Tarquinia Tartessos territory Tharros tion tombs Toscanos town Tréziny Tumulus urban appearance urban centres villages