Emergence and change in early urban societies /
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...
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1997]
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| Series: | Fundamental issues in archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.