Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete

by Walter E. Aufrecht, Neil A. Mirau, Stephen W. Gauley

Papers from a conference held at Lethbridge, Canada, in 1996. Contents Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia ( E. B. Banning ); The agricultural base of urbanism in hte early Bronze II-III Levant ( Arlene Miller Rosen ); Urbanization and northwest Semitic inscriptions of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages ( Walter E. Aufrecht ); Tell a case study of Ammonite urbanism during Iron Age II ( P. M. Michèle Daviau ); Archaeology, urbanism and the rise of the Israelite state ( William G. Dever ); The ancient Egyptian `city': figment or reality? ( Donald B. Redford ); Palace-centered polities in eastern Crete ( Metaxia Tsipopoulou ).

291 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1997

About the author

Walter Emanuel Aufrecht.