Roland Fletcher

The Limits of Settlement Growth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the effects of the built environment on long-term settlement development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780521430852
• ISBN-10: 0521430852
• Artikelnr.: 22403871

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Summary
Part I. Theoretical Context: The Role of the Material as Behaviour: 1. Archaeology, settlement growth and the material component of human behaviour
2. The material as behaviour
3. A hierarchy of social explanation: locating the material
Part II. The Limits of Settlement Growth: Behavioural Stress and the Material Management of Community Life: 4. The behavioural parameters of interaction and communication
5. Settlement growth trajectories
6. Settlement growth transitions and the role of the material
Part III. Implications: Transformations and Constraints of Community Life: 7. The development of sedentism
8. The development of agrarian and industrial urbanism
9. Future urban growth
Technical notes
References
Index.