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Urban network evolutions : towards a high-definition archaeology
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ISBN: 9788771846232 8771846239 Year: 2018 Publisher: Aarhus Aarhus University Press

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"For millennia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail. Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes. Issuing from the work of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), the book compares the archaeology of urbanism from medieval Northern Europe to the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World. The 40 contributors demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts, and the provenance ascribed to material culture, afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. This opens up for far-reaching questions as to how and to what extent urban networks catalysed societal and environmental expansions and crises in the past."--Back cover.


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Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia
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ISBN: 3030271692 3030271684 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in Sydney – First Government House. The book is anchored around a detailed comparison of contents of 20 cesspits created during the 19th century, and examines patterns of similarity and dissimilarity, presenting analyses that work towards an integration of historical and archaeological data and perspectives. The book also outlines a transnational framework of comparison that assists in the larger context related to building a truly global archaeology of the modern city. This framework is directly related a multi-scalar approach to urban archaeology. Historical archaeologists have been advocating the need to explore the archaeology of the modern city using several different scales or frames of reference. The most popular (and most basic) of these has been the household. However, it has also been acknowledged that interpreting the archaeology of households beyond the notion that every household and associated archaeological assemblage is unique requires archaeologists and historians to compare and contrast, and to establish patterns. These comparisons frequently occur at the level of the area or district in the same city, where archaeologists seek to derive patterns that might be explained as being the result of status, class, ethnicity, or ideology. Other less frequent comparisons occur at larger scales, for example between cities or countries, acknowledging that the archaeology of the modern western city is also the archaeology of modern global forces of production, consumption, trade, immigration and ideology formation. This book makes a contribution to that general literature.


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A contemporary archaeology of Londons mega events : from the Great Exhibition to London 2012
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ISBN: 1787358445 1787358453 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

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"Contemporary Archaeology of London's Mega Events explores the traces of London's most significant modern 'mega events'. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a 'legacy' that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply transient or short-term. Using a novel methodology drawn from the field of contemporary archaeology - the archaeology of the recent past and present-day - a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition's Crystal Palace and their extraordinary 'afterlife' at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain's South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London's mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and heritage in its efforts to create a positive legacy for future generations".

Medemblik and Monnickendam : aspects of medieval urbanization in northern Holland
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ISBN: 907031911X Year: 1989 Publisher: Amsterdam Universiteit van Amsterdam. Instituut voor pre- en protohistorische archeologie Albert Egges van Giffen

Recent research in late-antique urbanism
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ISBN: 1887829423 Year: 2001 Volume: no. 42 Publisher: Portsmouth (R.I.) : Journal of Roman archaeology,

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Urban archaeology in Britain
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ISBN: 0906780594 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Council for British archaeology

Environmental archaeology in the urban context
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ISBN: 0906780128 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Council for British archaeology

Roman urbanism: beyond the consumer city
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ISBN: 0415117712 Year: 1997 Publisher: London : Routledge,

The rebirth of towns in the west AD 700-1050
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ISSN: 05899036 ISBN: 0906780748 Year: 1988 Volume: 68 Publisher: London Council for British archaeology

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