New materialisms ancient urbanisms / edited by Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat.
"The future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism's deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by...
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing new materialisms, rethinking ancient urbanisms / Timothy R. Pauketat
- From weeping hills to lost caves : a search for vibrant matter in greater Cahokia / Susan M. Alt
- Chaco gathers : experience and assemblage in the ancient Southwest / Ruth M. Van Dyke
- Assembling the city : Monte Albán as a mountain of creation and sustenance / Arthur A. Joyce
- Assembling Tiwanaku : water and stone, humans and monoliths / John Wayne Janusek
- Immanence and the spirit of ancient urbanism at Paquimé and Liangzhu / Timothy R. Pauketat
- The gathering of Swahili religious practice : mosques-as-assemblages at 1000 CE / Jeffrey Fleisher
- Urbanism and the temporality of materiality on the medieval Deccan : beyond the cosmograms of social and political space / Andrew M. Bauer
- Cities, the underworld, and the infrastructure : the ecology of water in the Hittite world / Ömür Harmansah
- Commentary: The city and the city / Oliver J.T. Harris.