Paths to complexity : centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe / / edited by Manuel Fernández-Götz, Holger Wendling, Katja Winger

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 936
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Antiquities
• Persona (resp. second.): Fernández-GötzManuel; WendlingHolger; WingerKatja
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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?
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Paths to complexity
• ISBN: 1-78297-724-4; 1-78297-726-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827505003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II