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Paths to complexity : centralisation and urbanisation in Iron Age Europe /

"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 bet...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fernández-Götz, Manuel (Editor ), Wendling, Holger (Editor ), Winger, Katja (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
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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 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?