05222nam 2200793 450 991046032630332120200520144314.01-78297-724-41-78297-726-0(CKB)3710000000433534(EBL)2076280(SSID)ssj0001517662(PQKBManifestationID)12621072(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001517662(PQKBWorkID)11505938(PQKB)10633370(PQKBManifestationID)16051835(PQKB)24461444(MiAaPQ)EBC2076280(Au-PeEL)EBL2076280(CaPaEBR)ebr11069384(OCoLC)896359604(EXLCZ)99371000000043353420150710h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPaths to complexity centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe /edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling, Katja WingerOxford, [England] ;Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] :Oxbow Books,2014.©20141 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78297-723-6 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-StudiesChapter 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 EuropeOpen 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 ProspectionChapter 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?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-speakingIron ageEuropeUrbanizationEuropeHistoryTo 1500Complexity (Philosophy)Social aspectsEuropeHistoryTo 1500Social changeEuropeHistoryTo 1500Cities and towns, AncientEuropeExcavations (Archaeology)EuropeSocial archaeologyEuropeLandscape archaeologyEuropeEuropeAntiquitiesElectronic books.Iron ageUrbanizationHistoryComplexity (Philosophy)Social aspectsHistorySocial changeHistoryCities and towns, AncientExcavations (Archaeology)Social archaeologyLandscape archaeology936Fernández-Götz ManuelWendling HolgerWinger KatjaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460326303321Paths to complexity2289545UNINA