Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent During the Fourth and Third Millennia BC

Journal of World Prehistory

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-109

  Wilkinson, T J ^a   Philip, Graham ^a   Bradbury, J ^a   Dunford, R ^b   Donoghue, D ^a   Galiatsatos, N ^a   Lawrence, D ^a   Ricci, A ^c,d   Smith, S L ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agro pastoral; Bronze Age; Cities; Landscape; Late Chalcolithic; Urbanization; Wool

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PASTORALISM; RURAL AREA; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; URBANIZATION; WOOL;

LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84899438840     PISSN: 08927537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10963-014-9072-2     Document Type: Article

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