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1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) |
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"Exploring the origins of urbanism--the emergence and development of the first cities, has long constituted one of the main challenges of archaeological and ancient historical research. Studying cities in a long-term and cross-cultural perspective links the past with the present, allowing a better understanding of one of the most important developments in human history. The 21 papers in this volume aim to bring together the latest continental and English-speaking research with contributions by well-established researchers and younger colleagues providing innovative perspectives. Contributions cover an area stretching from central Spain to Moravia and from southern France to Britain. The aim has been to produce a work of reference for readers interested in Iron Age archaeology in particular, and in urbanisation processes in general"--Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; List of Contributors ; Grand Narratives: The Rise of Urbanism in Temperate Europe ; Chapter 1: Introduction: New Perspectives on Iron Age Urbanisation; Chapter 2: Urbanisation in Temperate Europe in the Iron Age: Mediterranean Influence or Indigenous?; Towns Before the Oppida: Centralisation Processes in the Early Iron Age; Chapter 3: Understanding the Heuneburg: A Biographical Approach; Chapter 4: Hallstatt Urban Experience before the Celtic Oppida in Central and Eastern Gaul. Two Cases-Studies. |
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Chapter 5: Places of Memory, Hero Cults and Urbanisation during the First Iron Age in Southeast GaulModelling Complexity: Villages and Cities in Late Iron Age Europe; Chapter 6: Oppida and Urbanisation Processes in Central Europe; Chapter 7: Oppida, Production and Social Status -- Complexity of the Late La Tène Period in Central Europe; Chapter 8: A Historical-Semantic Approach to the Concept of 'Oppidum'. The Example of Bibracte; Chapter 9: Space, Architecture and Identity in Gaulin the 2nd/1st centuries BC; Chapter 10: Symbolic Meanings of Iron Age Hillfort Defences in Continental Europe. |
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Open Agglomerations and Fortified Centres: From Sites to LandscapesChapter 11: Roseldorf -- An Enclosed Central Settlement of the Early and Middle La Tène Period in Lower Austria; Chapter 12: Aspects of Iron Age Urbanity and Urbanism at Manching; Chapter 13: What's in a Wall? Considerations on the Role of Open Settlements in Late La Tène Gaul; Chapter 14: Enlarging Oppida: Multipolar Town Patterns in Late Iron Age Gaul; Chapter 15: Exploring Urbanisation in the Southern French Iron Age through Integrated Geophysicaland Topographic Prospection. |
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Chapter 16: Interdisciplinary and Trinational Research into the Late La Tène Settlement Landscape of the Upper RhineChapter 17: Caesar's Conquest of Gaul -- A Factor of Crisis or Consolidation? The Otzenhausen Oppidum and its Environment; At the Edge of the World? Iberia and Britain; Chapter 18: The Emergence of Urbanism in Early Iron Age Central Iberia; Chapter 19: The Celtiberian Oppidum of Segeda; Chapter 20: Are the Developed Hillforts of Southern England Urban? |
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Iron age -- Europe.
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Iron age. |
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Europe. |
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Urbanization -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Urbanization. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Complexity (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Complexity (Philosophy) |
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Social aspects. |
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Social change -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Social change. |
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Cities and towns, Ancient -- Europe.
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Cities and towns, Ancient. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Social archaeology -- Europe.
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Social archaeology. |
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Landscape archaeology -- Europe.
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Landscape archaeology. |
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Europe -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Fernández-Götz, Manuel, editor.
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Wendling, Holger, editor.
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Winger, Katja, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Paths to complexity. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2014 9781782977230 (DLC) 2014032029 |
| ISBN |
9781782977261 (electronic book) |
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1782977260 (electronic book) |
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1782977236 |
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9781782977230 |
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9781782977247 |
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1782977244 |
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9781782977254 |
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1782977252 |
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