PBA 126

MEDITERRANEAN URBANIZ C
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-726325-9
Verlag: BRITISH ACADEMY

Buch, Englisch, Band 126, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: Proceedings of the British Academy

Leading international contributors
- Wide geographical coverage of the Mediterranean
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.

Contents
- 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

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of ancient history and archaeology, particularly of Greece, Italy, and the wider Mediterranean

Autoren/Hrsg.

Osborne

Osborne, Robin

Cunliffe, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge and Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European History, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy

Contributors: Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge Maria Iacovou, University of Cyprus François de Polignac, Centre Louis Gernet, Paris Tom Rasmussen, University of Manchester Christopher Smith, University of St Andrews Peter Attema, University of Groningen Peter van Dommelen, University of Glasgow Domenique Garcia, Université d'Aix-en-Provence/Marseille Maria Eugenia Aubet, University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona Corinna Riva, University of Oxford Lin Foxhall, University of Leicester Nicholas Purcell, University of Oxford