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The Urban mind : cultural and environmental dynamics

Title
The Urban mind : cultural and environmental dynamics / edited by Paul J.J. Sinclair [and others].
ISBN
9789150621754
9150621750
Published
Uppsala, Sweden : African and Comparative Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010.
Physical Description
618 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 31 cm.
Notes
"Uppsala Universitet."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 20, 2024
Series
Studies in global archaeology ; 15.
Studies in global archaeology, 15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Urban mind: a thematic introduction / Paul J.J. Sinclair
Climate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East during the Holocene / Martin Finné and Karin Holmgren
Cultural interaction and cognitive expressions in the formation of Ancient Near Eastern societies / Kristina J. Hesse
Climate change, ecology and early sedentism in interaction: visible traces of the early urban mind in Continental and Northern Europe / Julia Mattes
Cities and urban landscapes in the Ancient Near East and Egypt with special focus on the city of Babylon / Olof Pedersén, Paul J.J. Sinclair, Irmgard Hein and Jakob Andersson
Social and environmental dynamics in Bronze and Iron Age Greece / Erika Weiberg, Michael Lindblom, Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg and Gullög Nordquist
Urban mind is the normalcy of urbanity / Svante Fischer and Frands Herschend
Role of natural phenomena in the rise and fall of urban areas in the Sistan Basin on the Iranian Plateau (Southern Delta) / Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz
Concepts of the city-state in Ancient Greece / Susanne Carlsson
Long-term resilience: the reconstruction of the Ancient Greek polis of Kos after earthquakes in the period c. 200 BCE to c. 200 CE / Kerstin Höghammar
Fall and decline of the Roman urban mind / Svante Fischer, Hans Lejdegård and Helena Victor
Why are the so-called dead cities of Northern Syria dead? / Witold Witakowski
Lost in the city: an essay on Christian attitudes towards urbanism in Late Antiquity / Mats Eskhult
Constantinople in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages / Ewa Balicka-Witakowska
Urban Anthropocene: lessons for sustainability from the environmental history of Constantinople / John Ljungkvist, Stephan Barthel, Göran Finnveden and Sverker Sörlin.
Innovative memory and resilient cities: echoes from Ancient Constantinople / Stephan Barthel, Sverker Sörlin and John Ljungkvist
What's in a name? Mistra
the town / Gullög Nordquist
Linguistic landscape of Istanbul in the seventeenth century / Éva Á. Csató, Bernt Brendemoen, Lars Johanson, Claudia Römer and Heidi Stein
Multilingualism and language contact in Urban centers along the Silk Road during the first millennium AD / Christiane Schaefer
Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi literature? / Carina Jahani
'James His Towne' and village nations: cognitive urbanism in early colonial America / Neil Price
Early urbanism in Scandinavia / Charlotta Hillerdal
Greening the ancient city: the Agro-Urban landscapes of the pre-Hispanic Maya / Christian Isendahl
Southeast Asian urban minds: an example from Laos / Anna Karlström
Conceptualising the urban mind in pre-European Southern Africa: rethinking Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe / Munyaradzi Manyanga, Innocent Pikirayi and Shadreck Chirikure
Towards an archaeology of the future: the urnab mind, energy regimes and long-term settlement system dynamics on the Zimbabwe Plateau / Paul J.J. Sinclair.
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
Sinclair, Paul J. J.
Nordquist, Gullög.
Herschend, Frands.
Isendahl, Christian.
Wrang, Laura.
Uppsala universitet. Afrikansk och jämförande arkeologi.
Uppsala universitet. Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia.
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