Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Urbanized landscapes in early Syro-Mesopotamia and prehispanic Mesoamerica : papers of a cross-cultural seminar held in honor of Robert McCormick Adams / edited by Davide Domenici and Nicolò Marchetti
Published Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Institutional Affiliations of the Authors; Preface; Gary M. Feinman: The Comparative Investigation of Early Urbanized Landscapes: An Interdisciplinary Reframing; Davide Domenici: Beyond Dichotomies: Teotihuacan and the Mesoamerican Urban Tradition; Pascal Butterlin: Princes marchands d'Uruk? L'expansion urukéenne en question (Études proto-urbaines 5); Giacomo Benati: The Construction of Large-scale Networks in Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: Emergent Political Institutions and Their Strategies
Nicolò Marchetti: Wandering through Early Urbanized Landscapes in Syro-MesopotamiaSimone Mantellini: Landscape Archaeology and Irrigation Systems in Central Asia: A View from Samarkand (Uzbekistan); Norman Yoffee: The Evolution of Urban Society Today: Robert Adams in and for the New Century; Appendix: Publications of Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018)
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Contributions chiefly in English; one contribution in French
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 06, 2018)
Subject Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018.
SUBJECT Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018 fast
Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018. nli
Subject Cities and towns, Ancient -- Middle East -- Congresses
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mexico -- Congresses
Urbanization -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Urbanization -- Mexico -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Cities and towns, Ancient
Urbanization
Mexico
Middle East
Mesopotamia (general region)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Domenici, Davide, editor
Marchetti, Nicolò, 1968- editor.
Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926-2018, honouree.
ISBN 9783447197823
344719782X