▪ Abstract I survey recent literature about early cities in the regional traditions of Southwest
Asia, Egypt, South Asia, China, Mesoamerica, Andean South America, Sub-Saharan Africa …

Southeast Asia's earliest states emerged during the first millennium AD from the Irawaddy
River of Myanmar to the Red River delta of northern Vietnam. Developments during this time …

I explore the ramifications of applying some recent research on cities, built on the work of
Jane Jacobs, to early city development. A communications approach to 'city‐ness' is offered …

As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-
existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of …

Archaeologists have long tended to conflate political evolutionary stages with Polanyi's
(1957) modes of exchange: bands and tribes with reciprocity, chiefdoms and early states …

Urbanism in the Indian subcontinent occurred in three distinct time periods in which cultural
cohesion over large regions is archaeologically demonstrated through the architecture and …

The late fourth and third centuries BCE witnessed the political unifications of Mauryan India
(including north India after 321 BCE, and most of the subcontinent by 265 BCE) and Han …

The vast agro-urban settlements that developed in the humid tropics of Mesoamerica and
Asia contained both elite civic-ceremonial spaces and sprawling metropolitan areas. Recent …

The Origins of Ancient Vietnam explores the origins of civilization in the Red River Delta of
Vietnam and how related studies can inform our understanding of ancient societies …

The motivations and mechanisms of increasing social complexity and cultural exchange are
major issues of anthropological and archaeological research. Because the origins of …