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Contextualizing early urbanization: settlement cores, early states and agro-pastoral strategies in the fertile crescent during the fourth and third millennia BC
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This paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during the Late Chalcolithic period, was within a dense pattern of rural settlement. There followed a profound shift in settlement pattern that resulted in the formation of large walled or ramparted sites (‘citadel cities’) associated with a more dynamic phase of urbanization exemplified by short cycles of growth and co...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer US Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of World Prehistory Journal website
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 43-109
- Publication date:
- 2014-04-16
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1573-7802
- ISSN:
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0892-7537
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pubs:464273
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- 2015-11-12
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- Wilkinson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- Copyright The Authors 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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