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Author:   Attila Gyucha
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.671kg
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9781438472768

ISBN 10:   1438472765
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   02 January 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations 1. Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization from a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction to the Volume Attila Gyucha 2. Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization Michael E. Smith Part I. Coming Together: Origins and Processes 3. "". . . the nearest run thing . . ."" The Genesis and Collapse of a Bronze Age Polity in the Maros Valley of Southeastern Europe John M. O'Shea and Amy Nicodemus 4. Coming Together in the Iron Age: Population Aggregation and Urban Dynamics in Temperate Europe Manuel Fernandez-Gotz 5. Contextualizing Aggregation and Nucleation as Demographic Processes Leading to Cahokia's Emergence as an Incipient Urban Center John E. Kelly 6. Why Athens? Population Aggregation in Attica in the Early Iron Age Robin Osborne 7. Synoikismos: Formation and Form of Ancient Greek Cities Bradley A. Ault Part II. Pathways to Sustainability: Challenges and Resolutions 8. Trypillia Megasites: The First Cities in Europe? Bisserka Gaydarska 9. Emergent Urbanism: Trade, Settlement, and Society at Seyitomer Hoyuk in Early Bronze Age Western Anatolia Laura K. Harrison and A. Nejat Bilgen 10. If You Build It, Will They Come? Will They Stay? The Mycenaean Port Town of Kalamianos Daniel J. Pullen 11. Architectural Visibility as an Integrating Mechanism in Roman Urbanism: Micro-Viewshed Analysis at Pompeii Alan Kaiser Part III. Transformative Effects: Social, Political, and Cultural Change 12. Cross-Scale Settlement Morphologies and Social Formations in the Neolithic of the Great Hungarian Plain Pal Raczky 13. Aggregation and Dispersal: Rural Landscapes of the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula from the Iron Age to the Early Roman Empire Ines Sastre and Brais Curras 14. Integration and Disintegration: The Role of Kiva Architecture in Community Formation during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III Periods in the U.S. Southwest Susan C. Ryan 15. Settlement Aggregation and Geopolitical Realignment in the Northeastern Woodlands Jennifer Birch Contributors Index

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Attila Gyucha is Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Field Museum of Natural History and the author of Prehistoric Village Social Dynamics: the Early Copper Age in the Körös Region.

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