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Mediterranean urbanization, 800-600 BC / edited by Robin Osborne & Barry Cunliffe.

Contributor(s): Osborne, Robin, 1957- | Cunliffe, Barry W | British Academy
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press for the British Academy, c2005.Description: xiv, 279 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0197263259 (hbk.)Subject(s): Urbanization -- Mediterranean Region -- History | Human settlements -- Mediterranean Region -- History | Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476
Contents:
Urban sprawl : what is urbanization and why does it matter? / Robin Osborne -- The early iron age urban forms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou -- Forms and processes : some thoughts on the meaning of urbanization in early Archaic Greece / François de Polignac (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Urbanization in Etruria / Tom Rasmussen -- The beginnings of urbanization in Rome / Christopher Smith -- Early urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine region (South Lazio), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria) / Peter Attema -- Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanization in the Western Mediterranean / Peter Van Dommelen -- Urbanization and spatial organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age / Dominique Garcia (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Mainake : the legend and the new archaeological evidence / Maria Eugenia Aubet (translated by Mary Turton) -- The culture of urbanization in the Mediterranean c.800-600 BC / Corninna Riva -- Village to city : staples and luxuries? Exchange networks and urbanization / Lin Foxhall -- Statics and dynamics : ancient Mediterranean urbanism / Nicholas Purcell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urban sprawl : what is urbanization and why does it matter? / Robin Osborne -- The early iron age urban forms of Cyprus / Maria Iacovou -- Forms and processes : some thoughts on the meaning of urbanization in early Archaic Greece / François de Polignac (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Urbanization in Etruria / Tom Rasmussen -- The beginnings of urbanization in Rome / Christopher Smith -- Early urbanization between 800 and 600 BC in the Pontine region (South Lazio), the Salento Isthmus (Apulia), and the Sibaritide (Northern Calabria) / Peter Attema -- Urban foundations? Colonial settlement and urbanization in the Western Mediterranean / Peter Van Dommelen -- Urbanization and spatial organization in Southern France and North-Eastern Spain during the Iron Age / Dominique Garcia (translated by Robin Osborne) -- Mainake : the legend and the new archaeological evidence / Maria Eugenia Aubet (translated by Mary Turton) -- The culture of urbanization in the Mediterranean c.800-600 BC / Corninna Riva -- Village to city : staples and luxuries? Exchange networks and urbanization / Lin Foxhall -- Statics and dynamics : ancient Mediterranean urbanism / Nicholas Purcell.