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UNINA9910797224003321 |
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Titolo |
Paths to complexity : centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe / / edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling, Katja Winger |
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Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-78297-724-4 |
1-78297-726-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Iron age - Europe |
Urbanization - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Complexity (Philosophy) - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Social change - Europe - History - To 1500 |
Cities and towns, Ancient - Europe |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Europe |
Social archaeology - Europe |
Landscape archaeology - Europe |
Europe Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. Moreover, archaeological research on ancient cities can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary processes of urbanisation. The 21 papers in this volume aim bring together the latest continental and English-speaking |
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