Delicate urbanism in context: Settlement nucleation in pre-Roman Germany

Delicate urbanism in context: Settlement nucleation in pre-Roman Germany

Edited by Simon Stoddart

This volume brings together the latest understanding of pre-Roman German urbanism from seven German scholars, accompanied by a contextualizing commentary from five further scholars, based in the UK and America. The result is a dissection of the different dimensions of a delicate urbanism that compares and contrasts with other examples of sometimes more robust urbanism in other parts of first millennium bc Europe. The papers concentrate on examples in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, but range as far as Rome and Athens in making comparisons. The analysis takes both a quantitative and qualitative approach, investigating both the first Hallstatt (sixth/fifth centuries bc) and second La Tène (last few centuries bc) cycles of nucleation, assessing rural settlement and burial, as well as the underlying forces of ritual and production.

• Delicate urbanism in context: Settlement nucleation in pre-Roman Germany
• Prelims
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - Early Iron Age Fürstensitze – some thoughts on a not-so-uniform phenomenon
• Chapter 3 - Urbanism of the oppida: a case study from Bavaria
• Chapter 4 - Ritual, society and settlement structure: driving forces of urbanization during the second and first century bc in southwest Germany
• Chapter 5 - The rural contribution to urbanism: late La Téne Viereckschanzen in southwest Germany
• Chapter 6 - Burial mounds and settlements: the funerary contribution to urbanism
• Chapter 7 - Quantifying Iron Age urbanism (density and distance)
• Chapter 8 - Not built in a day – the quality of Iron Age urbanism by comparison with Athens and Rome
• Chapter 9 - Discussing Iron Age urbanism in Central Europe: some thoughts
• Chapter 10 - Urbanization in Iron Age Germany and beyond
• Chapter 11 - Urbanism: a view from the south
• Chapter 12 - On the origins and context of urbanism in prehistoric Europe
• Bibliography