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Eurasia at the Dawn of History
Urbanization and Social Change

Manuel Fernández-Götz, Dirk Krausse, Colin Renfrew, David Olson, Almudena Hernando, Jean Guilaine, John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska, Johannes Müller, Fred Spier, Gary Feinman, Michael E. Smith, Hans-Peter Hahn, Jan Assmann, Mario Liverani, Alain Thote, Svend Hansen, John Bintliff, María Eugenia Aubet, John E. Collis, Jonathan M. Hall, Massimo Osanna, Simon Stoddart, Martín Almagro-Gorbea, Rudolf Echt, Otto-Herman Frey, Peter S. Wells, Pierre-Yves Milcent
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  • Date Published: April 2017
  • availability: Available
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781107147409

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  • Our current world is characterized by life in cities, the existence of social inequalities, and increasing individualization. When and how did these phenomena arise? What was the social and economic background for the development of hierarchies and the first cities? The authors of this volume analyze the processes of centralization, cultural interaction, and social differentiation that led to the development of the first urban centres and early state formations of ancient Eurasia, from the Atlantic coasts to China. The chronological framework spans a period from the Neolithic to the Late Iron Age, with a special focus on the early first millennium BC. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach structured around the concepts of identity and materiality, this book addresses the appearance of a range of key phenomena that continue to shape our world.

    • Offers a renewed approach on early urbanization processes
    • Brings together leading scholars from different academic traditions
    • Provides an interdisciplinary perspective on identity and materiality
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    • Date Published: April 2017
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781107147409
    • length: 436 pages
    • dimensions: 260 x 185 x 31 mm
    • weight: 1.09kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Between Myth and Logos:
    1. Materialities of complexity in ancient Eurasia Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dirk Krausse
    2. Cognitive archaeology and the making of the human mind Colin Renfrew
    3. History of writing, history of rationality David Olson
    4. The impact of social differentiation on identity: lights and shadows of the individualization process Almudena Hernando
    5. The Neolithic conquest of the Mediterranean Jean Guilaine
    6. Low-density urbanism: the case of the Trypillia group of Ukraine John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska
    7. From the Neolithic to the Iron Age – demography and social agglomeration: the development of centralized control? Johannes Müller
    8. Early state formation from a big history point of view Fred Spier
    9. Reframing ancient economies: new models, new questions Gary Feinman
    10. How can archaeologists identify early cities? Definitions, types, and attributes Michael E. Smith
    11. Towns between de-territorialisation and networking: on the dynamics of urbanization in the global context Hans-Peter Hahn
    Part II. Ancient Civilizations at the Turn of the Axis:
    12. Egypt in the 'axial age' Jan Assmann
    13. Conservative vs innovative cultural areas in the Near East Mario Liverani
    14. Elite burials in first-millennium BC China: towards individualization Alain Thote
    15. Giant tumuli of the Iron Age: tradition – monumentality – knowledge transfer Svend Hansen
    Part III. Times of Connectivity: The Mediterranean on the Move:
    16. Agency, structure, and the unconscious in the longue durée John Bintliff
    17. Phoenicians abroad: from merchant venturers to colonists María Eugenia Aubet
    18. Spheres of interaction: temperate Europe and the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age John E. Collis
    Part IV. Early Urban Cultures from South to North:
    19. The determinacy of space and state formation in archaic Greece Jonathan M. Hall
    20. Intercultural networks and urbanization in Southern Italy in the early Iron Age Massimo Osanna
    21. Power and place in Etruria Simon Stoddart
    22. Urbanization processes and cultural change in the early Iron Age of Central Europe Manuel Fernández-Götz and Dirk Krausse
    23. Founding rituals and myths in the Keltiké Martín Almagro-Gorbea
    Part V. Changing Symbols, Changing Minds?:
    24. Phase transition, axial age, and axis displacement: from the Hallstatt to the La Tène culture Rudolf Echt
    25. Early Celtic art in context Otto-Herman Frey
    26. Images, ornament, and cognition in early La Tène Europe: a new style for a changing world Peter S. Wells
    27. The network genesis of the La Tène cultures: a western point of view Pierre-Yves Milcent.

  • Editors

    Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh
    Manuel Fernández-Götz is Chancellor's Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh. He has coordinated the Heuneburg-Project (2011–13) and authored some 100 publications on Iron Age societies, the archaeology of identities, and the Roman conquest. Key books include Identity and Power: The Transformation of Iron Age Societies in Northeast Gaul (2014) and Paths to Complexity: Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe (2014). He currently directs excavations at the Oppidum of Monte Bernorio in Northern Spain.

    Dirk Krausse, State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
    Dirk Krausse is Head Archaeologist of Baden-Württemberg and Professor at the University of Tübingen. He has directed excavations at the Oppidum of Wallendorf and the 'princely sites' of Mont Lassois in Central France and the Heuneburg in Southern Germany. Among his books are Hochdorf III. Das Trink- und Speiseservice aus dem späthallstattzeitlichen Fürstengrab von Eberdingen-Hochdorf (1996) and Eisenzeitlicher Kulturwandel und Romanisierung im Mosel-Eifel-Raum (2006).

    Contributors

    Manuel Fernández-Götz, Dirk Krausse, Colin Renfrew, David Olson, Almudena Hernando, Jean Guilaine, John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska, Johannes Müller, Fred Spier, Gary Feinman, Michael E. Smith, Hans-Peter Hahn, Jan Assmann, Mario Liverani, Alain Thote, Svend Hansen, John Bintliff, María Eugenia Aubet, John E. Collis, Jonathan M. Hall, Massimo Osanna, Simon Stoddart, Martín Almagro-Gorbea, Rudolf Echt, Otto-Herman Frey, Peter S. Wells, Pierre-Yves Milcent

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