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Making cities: Economies of production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000–500 BC

Edited by Margarita Gleba, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera & Bela Dimova

Large and complex settlements appeared across the north Mediterranean during the period 1000–500 bc, from the Aegean basin to Iberia, as well as north of the Alps. The region also became considerably more interconnected. Urban life and networks fostered new consumption practices, requiring different economic and social structures to sustain them. This book considers the emergence of cities in Mediterranean Europe, with a focus on the economy. What was distinctive about urban lifeways across the Mediterranean? How did different economic activities interact, and how did they transform power hierarchies? How was urbanism sustained by economic structures, social relations and mobility? The authors bring to the debate recently excavated sites and regions that may be unfamiliar to wider (especially Anglophone) scholarship, alongside fresh reappraisals of well-known cities. The variety of urban life, economy and local dynamics prompts us to reconsider ancient urbanism through a comparative perspective.

• Complete volume - Making cities: Economies of production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000–500 BC
• Chapter 1 - Making cities: Economies of production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000–500 BC
• Chapter 2 - Argilos: the booming economy of a silent city
• Chapter 3 - Regional economies and productions in the area of the Thermaic Gulf
• Chapter 4 - Production activities and consumption of textiles in Early Iron Age Eretria
• Chapter 5 - Productive economy and society at Zagora
• Chapter 6 - Making Cretan cities: urbanization, demography and economies of production in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period
• Chapter 7 - Production, urbanization, and the rise of Athens in the Archaic period
• Chapter 8 - Making Corinth, 800–500 BC: production and consumption in Archaic Corinth
• Chapter 9 - Making cities in Veneto between the tenth and the sixth century BC
• Chapter 10 - Attached versus independent craft production in the formation of the early city-state of Padova (northeastern Italy, first millennium BC)
• Chapter 11 - Resource and ritual: manufacturing and production at Poggio Civitate
• Chapter 12 - Perugia: the frontier city
• Chapter 13 - Tarquinia: themes of urbanization on the Civita and the Monterozzi Plateaus
• Chapter 14 - Prolegomena to the material culture of Vulci during the Orientalizing period in the light of new discoveries
• Chapter 15 - Defining space, making the city: urbanism in Archaic Rome
• Chapter 16 - Commodities, the instability of the gift, and the codification of cultural encounters in Archaic southern Etruria
• Chapter 17 - The Etruscan pithos revolution
• Chapter 18 - Birth and transformation of a Messapian settlement from the Iron Age to the Classical period: Muro Leccese
• Chapter 19 - Indigenous urbanism in Iron Age western Sicily
• Chapter 20 - Colonial production and urbanization in Iron Age to early Punic Sardinia (eighth–fifth century BC)
• Chapter 21 - Entanglements, elite prerogatives, migratory swallows, and the elusive transfer of technological know-how into the western Mediterranean, 1000–700 BC
• Chapter 22 - Making cities, producing textiles: the Late Hallstatt Fürstensitze
• Chapter 23 - From household to cities: habitats and societies during the Early Iron Age
• Chapter 24 - Urbanization and early state formation: elite control over manufacture in Iberia (seventh to third century BC)
• Chapter 25 - Productive power during the Early Iron Age (c. 650–575 bc) at the Sant Jaume Complex (Alcanar, Catalonia, Spain)
• Chapter 26 - Not all that glitters is gold: urbanism and craftspeople in non-class or non-state run societies
• Chapter 27 - Urbanization and social change in southeast Iberia during the Early Iron Age
• Chapter 28 - ‘Building palaces in Spain’: rural economy and cities in post-Orientalizing Extremadura
• Chapter 29 - Craft and the urban community: industriousness and socio-economic development