Bending the Urban narrative: Cyclic Cities in Ancient Greece

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The urbanization of human settlements is commonly seen as a relatively linear development beginning in the earliest sedentary communities of the Neolithic and ending with the international megalopolises of the present day. A closer scrutiny of the archaeological record, however, clearly shows that this narrative has little bearing on the factual situation. Using the example of the developments in ancient Greece (700 BC – AD 500), this paper explores the cyclic nature of urban life, and how urbanization and de-urbanization are tightly tied to political agendas and not the given outcome of organic population growth.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39889.0