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Ancient Middle Niger (Case Studies in Early Societies #7)
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$34.99
Publication Date: September 29th, 2005
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
9780521012430
Pages:
278
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Description
The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient urbanism. They present the archaeologist with a novelty; a non-nucleated, clustered city-plan with no centralized, state-focused power. This book explores the emergence of these cities in the first millennium B.C. and the evolution of their hinterlands from the perspective of the self-organized landscape. Cities appeared in a series of profound transforms to the human-land relations and this book illustrates how each transform marked a leap in complexity.
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