عنوان

Emergence and change in early urban societies

(Number (ISBN

1489918485

(Number (ISBN

9781489918482

Number

b588877

Title Proper

Emergence and change in early urban societies

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Linda Manzanilla.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Plenum Press, [

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997] ©1997

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(xv, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps

Series Title

Fundamental issues in archaeology.; Language of science.

Text of Note

Early urban societies: challenges and perspectives / Linda Manzanilla --; Arslantepe-Malatya: external factors and local components in the development of an early state society / Marcella Frangipane --; Urbanism and the rise of complex society and the early state in Egypt / Kathryn A. Bard --; China's first cities: the walled site of Wangchenggang in the Central Plain Region of North China / Walburga Wiesheu --; Teotihuacan: urban archetype, cosmic model / Linda Manzanilla --; Ideology, power, and state formation in the Valley of Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce --; Clues to the system of power in the city of Oxkintok / Miguel Rivera Dorado --; Reconstructing Huari: a cultural chronology for the capital city / William H. Isbell --; Political institutional factors contributing to the integration of the Tiwanaku state / David L. Browman --; Population and agriculture in the emergence of complex society in the Bolivian altiplano: the case of Tiwanaku / James Edward Mathews --; Recapitulation and concluding remarks / Linda Manzanilla.

Text of Note

This wide-ranging reference provides an overview of the different factors involved in the emergence and change in early urban societies in the Fourth Millennium B.C., including Mesopotamia and Egypt, pre-Shang China, Classic Horizon Central Mexico and the Mayan area, and middle Horizon societies in the Andean region. The contributors examine such factors as centralized storage and redistributive economies, agro-managerial models, mercantile network control, and conflict and conquest. The coverage emphasizes specific archaeological data useful in theoretical construction.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Extinct cities.

Urbanization -- History.

edited by Linda Manzanilla.

Linda Manzanilla

Electronic name

[Book]

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