Research Catalog

Title

Man, settlement and urbanism: proceedings of a meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University; edited by Peter J. Ucko, Ruth Tringham and G.W. Dimbleby.

Author

Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects, London University, 1970.

Publication

London, Duckworth, 1972.

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Additional Authors

• Ucko, Peter J.
• Tringham, Ruth
• Dimbleby, G. W.
• University of London. Institute of Archaeology.

Description

xxviii, 979 pages 8 plates, illustrations, maps, plans; 26 cm

Summary

On 5th, 6th and 7th December 1970 a meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects, was held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, to discuss Settlement Patterns and Urbanization. This meeting - like its predecessor on the Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, which also resulted in a book - was called to enable researchers in different disciplines to meet in an attempt to bridge the gaps between them by personal contact and discussion. The range and scope of papers included in this volume reflect the unique importance of the subject and, it is believed, the essential nature of inter-disciplinary approaches to such subjects. Both the concept of non-urban settlement and the nature of urbanism itself are discussed. Mobility and settled life are considered in detail as well as such factors as demarcation and defence, population and disease. Finally, there are several studies of specific communities and particular periods of antiquity.

Subject

• Cities and towns
• Cities
• cities
• Nederzettingen
• Urbanisatie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• PART ONE: NON-URBAN SETTLEMENT: SECTION ONE: CONCEPTS, IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: 1. Blouet, B.W.; Factors influencing the evolution of settlement patterns. -2. Davidson, T.A.; Terrain adjustment and prehistoric communities. -3. Flannery, K.V.; The origins of the village as a settlement type in Mesoamerica and the Near East: a comparative study. -4. Gathercole, P.; The study of settlement patterns in Polynesia. -5. Jarman, M.R. C. Vita-Finzi, E.S. Higgs; Site catchment analysis in archaeology. -6. MacNeish, R.S.; The evolution of community patterns in Tehuacan Valley of Mexico and speculations about cultural processes. -7. Rouse, I.; Settlement patterns in archaeology. -8. Taylor, C.C.; The study of settlement patterns in pre-Saxon Britain.
• SECTION TWO: THE INFLUENCE OF MOBILITY ON NON-URBAN SETTLEMENT. 9. Allchin, B.; Hunters or pastoral nomads? Late Stone Age settlements in Western and Central India. 10. Bokonyi, S.; Zoological evidence for seasonal or permanent occupation of prehistoric settlements. -11. Clark, J.D.; Mobility and settlement patterns in sub-Saharan Africa: a comparison of late prehistoric hunter-gatherers and early agricultural occupation units. -12. Clark, J.D.; Palaeolithic butchery practices. 13. Glover, I.C.; Settlements and mobility among the hunter-gatherers of South-East Asia. -14. Isaac, G. Ll; Comparative studies of Pleistocene site locations in East Africa. -15. Lee, R.B.; Work effort, group structure and land-use in contemporary hunter-gatherers. -16. Simonsen, P.; The transition from food-gathering to pastoralism in north Scandinavia and its impact on settlement patterns. 17. Woodburn, J.C.; Ecology, nomadic movement and the composition of the local group among hunter-gatherers: an East Africa example and its implications. -18. Wymer, J.J. and R. Singer; Middle Stone Age occupational settlements on the Tzitzikama coast, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
• SECTION THREE: THE INFLUENCE OF ECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE ON NON-URBAN SETTLEMENT: 19. Allan, W.; Ecology, techniques and settlement patterns. -20. Doumas, C.; Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in Cyclades [Greece]. -21. French, D.; Settlement distribution in the Konya Plain, south-central Turkey. -22. Harlan, J.R.; Crops that extend the range of agricultural settlement. [Papua New Guinea, Oceania] -23. Harris, D.R.; Swidden systems and settlement. -24. Masson, V.M.; Prehistoric settlement patterns in Soviet central Asia. [Turkmenia]. -25. Mellaart, J.; Anatolian Neolithic settlement patterns. -26. Middleton, J.; Patterns of settlement in Zanzibar. -27. Mortensen, P.; Seasonal camps and early villages in the Zagros. -28. Oates, J.; Prehistoric settlement patterns in Mesopotamia.-29. Reynolds, B.; Kwandu settlement: isolation, integration and mobility among a south-central African people. -30. Soudsky, B. and I. Pavlu; The Linear Pottery Culture settlement among the south-central African people. -31. Watson, W.; Neolithic settlement in East Asia.
• PART TWO: FACTORS INFLUENCING BOTH NON-URBAN AND URBAN SETTLEMENT. SECTION ONE: POPULATION, DISEASE AND DEMOGRAPHY.: -32. Boyd, R.; Urbanization, morbidity and mortality. -33. Brothwell, D.; Community health as a factor in urban cultural evolution. -34. Forge, A.; Normative factors in the settlement size of Neolithic cultivators (New Guinea) [Papua New Guinea]. -35. Layton, R.; Settlement and community. [Gemeinschaft , Gesellschaft]. -36. Renfrew, C.; Patterns of population growth in the prehistoric Aegean. -37. Reynolds, V.; Ethology of urban life. -38. Smith, E.L.; Land-use, settlement patterns and subsistence agriculture: a demographic perspective.
• SECTION TWO: TERRITORALITY AND THE DEMARCATION OF LAND: 30. Martin, R.D.; Concepts of human territoriality. -40. Rowlands, M.J.; Defence factor in the organization of settlements. -41. Tringham, R.; Territorial demarcation of prehistoric settlements. -42. West, W.A.; The effect of private and public law on the use and development of land.
• SECTION THREE: TECHNIQUES, PLANNING AND CULTURAL CHANGE: 43. Cranstone, B.A.L.; Environment and choice in dwelling and settlement: an ethnographical survey. [Hunters and gatherers; Pastoral nomads: The Lapps, Kazak; Agricultural peoples: Papua New Guinea, Men's houses].. -44. Danisman, G.; The architectural development of settlements in Anatolia. -45, Douglas, M.; Symbolic orders in the use of domestic space. -46. Hodges, H.W.M.; Domestic building materials and ancient settlement. -47. Hurst, J.G.; The changing medieval village in England -48. Ritchie, A.; Inferences from settlements in Britain in the first millennium B.C. -49. Schwerdtfeger, F.W.; Urban settlement patterns in northern Nigeria (Hausaland).
• PART THREE: URBAN SETTLEMENT: SECTION ONE: DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF URBANISM: 50. Grove, D.; The function and future of urban centers. -51. Smith, M.G.; Complexity, size and urbanization. -52. Trigger, B.; Determinants of urban growth in pre-industrial societies. -53. Wheatley, P.; The concept of urbanism.
• SECTION TWO: REGIONAL AND LOCAL EVIDENCE FOR URBAN SETTLEMENT: THE NILE VALLEY: 54. Ali, A.M.; Meroitic settlement of the Butana (central Sudan). -55. Dixon, The disposal of certain personal, household and town waste in ancient Egypt. -56. Kemp, B.J.; Fortified towns in Nubia. -57. O'Connor, D.; The geography of settlement in ancient Egypt. -59. Ray, J.D.; The House of Osorapis. -60. Smith, H.S.; Society and settlement in ancient Egypt. -61. Uphill, E.; The concept of the Egyptian palace as a 'ruling machine'.
• WESTERN ASIA AND THE AEGEAN: 62. McC. Adams, R.; Patterns of urbanization in the early Mesopotamia. -63. Branigan, K.; Minoan settlements in east Crete. -64. Crawford, H.E.W.; Stimuli towards urbanization in south Mesopotamia. -65. Humphreys, S.C.; Town and country in ancient Greece. -66. Johnson, G.A.; A test of the utility of Central palace Theory on archaeology. -67. McNicoll, A.; The development of urban defences in Hellenistic Asia Minor. -68. Nissen, H.J.; The city wall of Uruk. -69. Oates, D.; The development of Assyrian towns and cities. -70. Parr, P.J.; Settlement patterns and urban planning in ancient Levant: the nature of the evidence. 71. Postgate, J. N.; The role of the temple in the Mesopotamian secular community. -72. Young, T.C.; Population densities and early Mesopotamia urbanism.
• WESTERN EUROPE: 73. Alexander, J.; The beginning of urban life in Europe. -74. Branigan, K.; Verulamium and the Chiltern villas. -75. Hassall, M.W.C.; Roman urbanization in western Europe. -76. Sturdy, D.; Correlation of evidence of medieval urban communities. -77. Ward-Perkin, J.B.; Central authority and patterns of rural settlement.
• SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: 78. Morton-Williams, P.; Some factors in location, growth and survival of towns in West Africa. -79. Randles, G.L.; Pre-colonial urbanization in Africa south of the equator. -80. Whitty, A.; Zimbabwe and Inyanga.
• CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: 81. Bankes, G.H.A.; Settlement patterns in the lower Moche Valley, north Peru, with special reference to the Early Horizon and Early Intermediate Period. -82. Bray, W.; Land-use, settlement patterns and politics in prehispanic Middle America: a review. -83. Day, K.C.; Urban planning at Chan Chan, Peru. -84. Robinson, D.J.; Changing settlement patterns in colonial Hispanic America.

ISBN

• 0715605895
• 9780715605899

LCCN

72186318

OCLC

• ocm00415912
• 415912
• SCSB-14655449

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library