The Archaeology of Ancient Cities. This item is unavailable.The Archaeology of Ancient Cities

Cities are the largest "artifacts" investigated by archaeologists--entities that have been under academic scrutiny for a long time. Urban places are both physical and social agglomerations, fostering the most intense interaction of any human settlement. Archaeological evidence illustrates how ancient cities worldwide were similar in origin, development, and maturation, showing considerable isomorphism with modern cities.

Glenn R Storey explores issues of definition and the essential elements of cities, offers a new heuristic typology of cities, and reviews case studies of six ancient cities (Copan, Great Zimbabwe, Gyeongju, Hierakonpolis, Rome, and Teotihuacan) with illustrative exercises at the end of each chapter. Urban planning, both ancient and modern, helps us understand the explosive increase in human activity in cities.

Glenn R. Storey is Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology at the University of Iowa. He has a BA (Ancient Greek) from Columbia University, an honours bachelor's degree from Oxford University in Classical Greats, and an MA and PhD in anthropology from Penn State University.