Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée

Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée
ISBN-10
3038976784
ISBN-13
9783038976783
Category
Social Science
Pages
314
Language
English
Published
2019-04-01
Publisher
MDPI
Authors
Giorgos Papantoniou, Athanasios Vionis

Description

This volume examines the applicability of central place theory in contemporary archaeological practice and thought in light of ongoing developments in landscape archaeology, by bringing together ‘central places’ and ‘un-central landscapes’ and by grasping diachronically the complex relation between town and country, as shaped by political economies and the availability of natural resources. Moving away from model-bounded approaches, central place theory is used more flexibly to include all the places that may have functioned as loci of economic or ideological centrality (even in a local context) in the past. Fourteen chapters examine centrality and un-central landscapes from Prehistory to the late Middle Ages in different geographical contexts, from Cyprus and the Levant, through Greece and the Balkans to Italy, France, and Germany.

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