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The eighth and seventh centuries BC were a period of major settlement change all across the Mediterranean. Some of the most exciting archaeology of the 1980s concerned ways of understanding the formation of the polis, the politically independent urban community, in the Greek world. But in the 1990s the concentration on the polis by classical archaeologists and ancient historians has often resulted in the treatment of what happens in the Greek world in isolation from developments elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Yet archaeologists working elsewhere in the Mediterranean increasingly command comparable bodies of material which demand interpretation not simply as local phenomena but as part of a widespread change in settlement forms and social and political preferences.
This volume grows out of a very successful two-day conference held at our initiative at the British Academy in November 2001. The papers delivered on that occasion are here supplemented by papers from Maria Eugenia Aubet and from Dominique Garcia, who were unable to attend the conference. Leading Mediterranean archaeologists and ancient historians from Britain and Europe bring together their latest research to address the question of urbanization in the early Iron Age Mediterranean in a more general framework. Did changes in social and political organization give birth to new settlement forms or was it new settlement forms that bring social and political change? What was the role of trade in the growth of towns in this period? What were the implications of the changing relationship between settlements and countryside in agrarian and religious terms? How far was urbanization a matter of spreading fashion?
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