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Author |
: Jennifer Birch |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2014-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135045104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135045100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Prehistoric Villages to Cities by : Jennifer Birch
Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a ‘Neolithic’ way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development lies a critical stage in social and political evolution. Throughout world, at various points in time, people living in small, dispersed village communities have come together into larger and more complex social formations. These community aggregates were, essentially, middle-range; situated between the earliest villages and emergent chiefdoms and states. This volume explores the social processes involved in the creation and maintenance of aggregated communities and how they brought about revolutionary transformations that affected virtually every aspect of a society and its culture. While there have been a number of studies that address coalescence from a regional perspective, less is understood about how aggregated communities functioned internally. The key premise explored in this volume is that large-scale, long-term cultural transformations were ultimately enacted in the context of daily practices, interactions, and what might be otherwise considered the mundane aspects of everyday life. How did these processes play out "on the ground" in diverse and historically contingent settings? What are the strategies and mechanisms that people adopt in order to facilitate living in larger social formations? What changes in social relations occur when people come together? This volume employs a broadly cross-cultural approach to interrogating these questions, employing case studies which span four continents and more than 10,000 years of human history.
Author |
: Jennifer Birch |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2020-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0367868253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780367868253 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Prehistoric Villages to Cities by : Jennifer Birch
Archaeologists have focused a great deal of attention on explaining the evolution of village societies and the transition to a 'Neolithic' way of life. Considerable interest has also concentrated on urbanism and the rise of the earliest cities. Between these two landmarks in human cultural development lies a critical stage in social and political evolution. Throughout world, at various points in time, people living in small, dispersed village communities have come together into larger and more complex social formations. These community aggregates were, essentially, middle-range; situated between the earliest villages and emergent chiefdoms and states. This volume explores the social processes involved in the creation and maintenance of aggregated communities and how they brought about revolutionary transformations that affected virtually every aspect of a society and its culture. While there have been a number of studies that address coalescence from a regional perspective, less is understood about how aggregated communities functioned internally. The key premise explored in this volume is that large-scale, long-term cultural transformations were ultimately enacted in the context of daily practices, interactions, and what might be otherwise considered the mundane aspects of everyday life. How did these processes play out "on the ground" in diverse and historically contingent settings? What are the strategies and mechanisms that people adopt in order to facilitate living in larger social formations? What changes in social relations occur when people come together? This volume employs a broadly cross-cultural approach to interrogating these questions, employing case studies which span four continents and more than 10,000 years of human history.
Author |
: Peter S. Wells |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080149298X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801492983 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Farms, Villages, and Cities by : Peter S. Wells
Author |
: Arthur Pendragon |
Publisher |
: Independently Published |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798334733565 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evolution of Towns and Cities by : Arthur Pendragon
Embark on a journey through time with "The Evolution of Towns and Cities: From Villages to Metropolises." This book traces the development of human settlements from prehistoric communities to future megacities, highlighting key milestones like the rise of early cities, trade hubs, and skyscrapers. Discover how ingenuity and resilience shaped urban environments, from Jericho's stone wall to London's gas street lighting. Learn about the evolution of cities like Rome, Paris, and Tokyo into vibrant centers of culture and commerce, and explore ancient sewer systems, medieval city walls, and industrial factory towns. Looking ahead, "The Evolution of Towns and Cities" envisions cities of 2500, where advanced technology and sustainable practices create harmonious urban spaces. Ideal for history enthusiasts, urban planners, and curious minds, this book offers a captivating overview of the dynamic nature of urban life.
Author |
: Beatrice D. Brooke |
Publisher |
: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages |
: 43 |
Release |
: 2010-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615329571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615329579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art and Culture of the Prehistoric World by : Beatrice D. Brooke
We know a surprising amount about how people lived before the written word. This strikingly visual book combines photographs of artifacts created by ancient humans with brilliant illustrations, and is guaranteed to appeal to students of all ages. Readers learn about the lives of early humans, from the invention of tools to their religious beliefs. Theyll see that weve been a highly inventive species all along.
Author |
: Timothy Darvill |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1996-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521551323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521551328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistoric Britain from the Air by : Timothy Darvill
This book provides a bird's eye look at the monumental achievements of Britain's earliest inhabitants. Arranged thematically, it illustrates and describes a wide selection of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from between 500,000 years ago and the Roman conquest. Timothy Darvill brings to life many of the familiar sites and monuments that prehistoric communities built, and exposes to view many thousands of sites that simply cannot be seen at ground level. Throughout the book, he makes a unique application of social archaeology to the field of aerial photography.
Author |
: Greg Woolf |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2020-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191641824 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191641820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Death of Ancient Cities by : Greg Woolf
The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. The ruins of many of them still enchant us. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages. It is a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. Its focus is on the ancient Mediterranean: Greeks and Romans at the centre, but Phoenicians and Etruscans, Persians, Gauls, and Egyptians all play a part. The story begins with the Greek discovery of much more ancient urban civilizations in Egypt and the Near East, and charts the gradual spread of urbanism to the Atlantic and then the North Sea in the centuries that followed. The ancient Mediterranean, where our story begins, was a harsh environment for urbanism. So how were cities first created, and then sustained for so long, in these apparently unpromising surroundings? How did they feed themselves, where did they find water and building materials, and what did they do with their waste and their dead? Why, in the end, did their rulers give up on them? And what it was like to inhabit urban worlds so unlike our own - cities plunged into darkness every night, cities dominated by the temples of the gods, cities of farmers, cities of slaves, cities of soldiers. Ultimately, the chief characters in the story are the cities themselves. Athens and Sparta, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Alexandria: cities that formed great families. Their story encompasses the history of the generations of people who built and inhabited them, whose short lives left behind monuments that have inspired city builders ever since - and whose ruins stand as stark reminders to the 21st century of the perils as well as the potential rewards of an urban existence.
Author |
: Ervan G. Garrison |
Publisher |
: CRC Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1998-06-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 084939810X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780849398100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Engineering and Technology by : Ervan G. Garrison
History of Engineering and Technology provides an illustrated history of engineered technology from the Stone Age to the Nuclear Age. Examining important areas of engineering and technology, this second edition contains: New contributions on Airships and zeppelins Highways and economics Early hydroelectricity Chemical engineering Technology and history Brunel and the Royal Navy Stealth and the submarine Computer history Deepwater engineering Science fiction and the evolution of modern engineering Art and engineering Electric motors, radio, and batteries Expansion of these existing chapters Mining and the Location of Minerals Water Distribution: Qanots to Acequias Biomedical Engineering Communication Engineering: Shannon to Satellites Personalities and the Auto: Ford and Ferrari Failures in Engineering: Chernobyl, Titanic, Tacoma Narrows, Challenger Cold Fusion, Electric Cars, and Other "Humbug" This introductory book presents the persons, concepts, and events that made salient contributions to the engineering narrative, reporting a compelling story spanning millennia and encouraging a sense of history for its readers.
Author |
: Attila Gyucha |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2019-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438472775 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438472773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coming Together by : Attila Gyucha
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. 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 and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleations origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.
Author |
: Stephen Denison Peet |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 558 |
Release |
: 1904 |
ISBN-10 |
: UTEXAS:059172011848588 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities; Or, The Beginnings of Architecture by : Stephen Denison Peet