Coming Together by Attila Gyucha
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East.
The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleation's origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.
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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
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Homo Migrans
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The Archaeology of Inequality
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The Early Bronze Age in Western Anatolia
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Approaching Monumentality in Archaeology
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The Archaeology of Violence
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The Magdalenian Household
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Diversity of Sacrifice
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The Archaeology of Childhood
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Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East
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Eventful Archaeologies
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Water and Power in Past Societies
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781438472768 |
| ISBN 10 | 1438472765 |
| Title | Coming Together |
| Author | Attila Gyucha |
| Series | Suny Series The Institute For European And Mediterranean Archaeology Distinguished Monograph Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2020-01-02 |
| Number of pages | 402 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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