TY - BOOK ID - 74800145 TI - Country in the city : agricultural functions of protohistoric urban settlements (Aegean and Western Mediterranean) PY - 2019 SN - 9781789691320 178969132X 1789691338 9781789691337 PB - Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural productivity KW - Human settlements KW - Bronze age KW - Iron age KW - History KW - Agriculture, Prehistoric KW - Civilization KW - Productivity, Agricultural KW - Agriculture KW - Farm management KW - Prehistoric agriculture KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Economic aspects KW - Food KW - Agricultural productivity - Mediterranean Region - History - To 1500 KW - Agricultural productivity - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - History - To 1500 KW - Agriculture, Prehistoric - Mediterranean Region KW - Bronze age - Mediterranean Region. KW - Bronze age - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) KW - Iron age - Mediterranean Region KW - Iron age - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) KW - To 1500 KW - Mediterranean Region. KW - Mediterranean Region UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74800145 AB - The existence of an opposition between rural and urban spaces is an important question for our societies, and one that has been posed since the radical transformations of the 20th century and the so-called 'end of the peasants'. In this context it becomes also a question for archaeologists and historians. This book assembles contributions on the place of agricultural production in the context of urbanization in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Mediterranean. The contributions concentrate on the second-millennium Aegean and the protohistoric northwestern Mediterranean. They offer a reflection on the nature of urbanization and its consequences for rural spaces near cities and on the many ways in which rural spaces and agricultural activities may be intertwined with urban spaces - a reconsideration of the very nature of urbanism. A deliberate accent is laid on the comparative perspectives between different regions and periods of Mediterranean protohistory, and on the integration of all kinds of sources and research methods, from texts to survey to environmental archaeology. Highlighted throughout are the original paths followed in the Peloponnese or in the Troad with regard to the Minoan model of urbanization, and the many aspects and periods of Minoan urbanization (as in development in Languedoc vis-a-vis Catalonia). Thus a new perspective on Mediterranean urbanization is offered. ER -