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Urbanized Landscapes in Early Syro-Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mesoamerica

Papers of a Cross-Cultural Seminar held in Honor of Robert McCormick Adams

Davide Domenici, Nicolò Marchetti (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2018
Harrassowitz Verlag
978-3-447-11086-0 (ISBN)

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Meant as a homage to the memory of Robert McCormick Adams and born out of a conference organized at the University of Bologna to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his book The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico (1966), the volume brings together contributions by scholars tackling ancient urbanism from different regions and theoretical perspectives aiming at providing elements that could enhance cross-cultural dialogue and cross-fertilization between various theoretical and methodological approaches.The book opens with a theoretical contribution to notions such as cooperation, collective action, and social networks, followed by an essay providing a view of Teotihuacan urbanism based on a new understanding of its corpus of mural paintings. As for the near eastern side, the outreach of the Late Uruk culture outside southern Mesopotamia is evaluated vis-a-vis the emergence of Late Chalcolithic elites tackled through an analysis of large-scale resources distribution networks. The implications of surface surveys for studying early Syro-Mesopotamian urbanism are discussed in the framework of two newly designed field projects, while the specific subject of water management is reviewed through a study case in Central Asia. Finally, Adams' contributions between 2000 and 2012 are set into perspective and the volume closes with a complete bibliography of Robert McCormick Adams, highlighting his amazing contribution to many research areas and especially to the study of ancient urbanized landscapes.

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2018
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	679 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Schlagworte	Ancient Near Eastern Studies • Ancient urbanism • archaeology • Art History • Mesopotamia • Mexiko/Geschichte • Prähistorisches Mexiko • Prehispanic Mexico • Samarkand • Städtebaugeschichte • Teotihuacan • Urbanismus • Uruk • Vorderasiatische Archäologie
ISBN-10	3-447-11086-4 / 3447110864
ISBN-13	978-3-447-11086-0 / 9783447110860
Zustand	Neuware