Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization

Book Overview

The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438472773
• ISBN13: 9781438472775
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 10.1"