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Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory. Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession and the economic impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the world finds itself in unprecedented times. Even though archaeology typically concerns itself with the remote past, it must also help us understand how we got to where we are today. This book takes up the challenging new theories of scholars like Thomas Piketty, Mariana Mazzucato and David Graeber and explores their importance for the study of human economies in ancient and prehistoric contexts. Drawing on case studies from the Neolithic to the Classical Era and spanning the globe, the authors put forward a new narrative of economic change that is relevant to the 21st century. This book speaks to the study of economics in all ancient societies and is suitable for researchers of archaeology, economics, economic history and all related disciplines.

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Adam S. Green is Lecturer in Sustainability in the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York (UK). He holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University (USA) and has more than a decade of experience leading collaborative fieldwork in India with Deccan College Post-graduate Institute for Archaeology and Banaras Hindu University. Toby C. Wilkinson is Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Sheffield (UK), previously worked at the British Institute at Ankara and Istanbul University (Turkey) and at the Catalan Institute for Classical Archaeology, Tarragona (Spain). He has over 15 years of fieldwork experience in Turkey. Darryl Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College (USA). He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University (USA) and has over a decade of experience directing archaeological research in Peru and New Mexico. Nancy Highcock is a Curator for Mesopotamia in the Department for Middle East at the British Museum. She holds a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies from New York University (USA), worked in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) and has over a decade of fieldwork experience in Turkey. Thomas P. Leppard holds a PhD in archaeology from Brown University (USA) and has directed archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Pacific. He co-edited Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity in 2018 and Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History in 2023, and his research has been published in Science Advances, Current Anthropology, Environmental Conservation and Antiquity, amongst others.

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