The social construction of ancient cities / edited by Monica L. Smith.
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Washington [D.C.] :
Smithsonian Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The social construction of ancient cities / Monica L. Smith
- Teotihuacan: cosmic glories and mundane needs / George L. Cowgill
- The spatial patterns of everyday life in old Babylonian neighborhoods / Kathryn Keith
- Life behind walls: patterns in the urban landscape on the prehistoric north coast of Peru / Jerry D. Moore
- Early urban configurations on the middle Niger: clustered cities and landscapes of power / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh
- Untangling the ties that bind: the city, the countryside, and the nature of Maya urbanism at Xunantunich, Belize / Jason Yeager
- Food provisioning in urban societies: a view from northern Mesopotamia / Melinda A. Zeder
- Cities as a place of ethnogenesis: urban growth and centralization in the Chicama Valley, Peru / Christopher J. Attarian
- The moral community: Maya settlement transformation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala / Stephen Houston ... [et al.]
- Urban social transformations and the problem of the "first city": new research from Mesopotamia / Geoff Emberling
- Early walled cities of the Indian subcontinent as "small worlds" / Monica L. Smith
- Compromises and conflicts: production and commerce in the royal cities of Eastern Zhou, China / Chen Shen.