Urban Network Evolutions: Towards a high-definition archaeology

Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes.

Issued from the the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), the book compares the medieval Northern European archaeology of urbanism to the archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World.

The 40 contributions in this book demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts; and the provenance ascribed to material culture, afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. This opens up for far-reaching questions as to how and to what extent urban networks catalyzed societal and environmental expansions and crises in the past.