For millenia, 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.

About the Author
Rubina Raja is professor of classical archaeology at Aarhus University and Centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence, Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet). Soren M. Sindbaek is professor of archaeology at Aarhus University.

Reviews
[...] the work is overall unified by its contributions' association with UrbNet as well as their argument for the use of multiple research methods to obtain a more complete understanding of and answers to archaeological questions. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *



Book Information
ISBN 9788771846232
Author Rubina Raja
Format Paperback
Page Count 309
Imprint Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Publisher Aarhus University Press