From Prehistoric Villages to Cities

Settlement Aggregation and Community Transformation

240 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9780415836616
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2013
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Routledge
• Herausgegeben von: Jennifer Birch