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Urbanized landscapes in early Syro-Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mesoamerica : papers of a cross-cultural seminar held in honor of Robert McCormick Adams by Davide Domenici and Nicolò Marchetti is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Meant as a homage to the memory of Robert McCormick Adams and born out of a conference organized at the University of Bologna to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his book The Evolution of Urban Society: Early Mesopotamia and Prehispanic Mexico(1966), the volume brings together contributions by scholars tackling ancient urbanism from different regions and theoretical perspectives aiming at providing elements that could enhance cross-cultural dialogue and cross-fertilization between various theoretical and methodological approaches. The book opens with a theoretical contribution to notions such as cooperation, collective action, and social networks, followed by an essay providing a view of Teotihuacan urbanism based on a new understanding of its corpus of mural paintings. As for the near eastern side, the outreach of the Late Uruk culture outside southern Mesopotamia is evaluated vis-a-vis the emergence of Late Chalcolithic elites tackled through an analysis of large-scale resources distribution networks. The implications of surface surveys for studying early Syro-Mesopotamian urbanism are discussed in the framework of two newly designed field projects, while
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- Author
- Davide Domenici and Nicolò Marchetti
- Publisher
- Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783447110860
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Humanities