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Redefining Configurations of Urban Settings in Steppe Societies (2015)
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Despite exciting turns in archaeological approaches to ‘urbanism’ emphasizing smaller-scale or lower-density occupations, the study of urban centers among mobile pastoral groups continues to escape notice. The development of urban centers associated with intensive production, exchange, and habitation are often deemed incompatible with societies that have mobile components, or are engaged in greater mobility related to pastoral production. Nevertheless, numerous Eurasian steppe societies have...