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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Manzanilla, Linda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1997]
Series:Fundamental issues in archaeology.
Language of science.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.