EURASIA AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY Our current world is characterized by life in cities,the existence of social inequalities,andincreasingindividualization.Whenandhowdidthesephe- nomenaarise?Whatwasthesocialandeconomicbackgroundforthedevel- opmentofhierarchiesandthefirstcities?Theauthorsofthisvolumeanalyze theprocessesofcentralization,culturalinteraction,andsocialdifferentiation thatledtothedevelopmentofthefirsturbancentresandearlystateforma- tionsofancientEurasia,fromtheAtlanticcoaststoChina.Thechronologi- calframeworkspansaperiodfromtheNeolithictotheLateIronAge,with aspecialfocusontheearlyfirstmillenniumBC. Byadoptinganinterdisciplinaryapproachstructuredaroundtheconcepts ofidentityandmateriality,thisbookaddressestheappearanceofarangeof keyphenomenathatcontinuetoshapeourworld. Manuel Fernández-Götz is Lecturer in Archaeology at the School of His- tory,ClassicsandArchaeologyoftheUniversityofEdinburghandExecu- tiveBoardMemberoftheEuropeanAssociationofArchaeologists.Hehas coordinatedtheHeuneburgProject(2011–13)andauthoredsome120pub- licationsonIronAgesocieties,thearchaeologyofidentities,andtheRoman conquest.KeybooksincludeIdentityandPower:TheTransformationofIronAge Societies in Northeast Gaul (2014) and Paths to Complexity:Centralisation and Urbanisation in Iron Age Europe (2014).He currently directs excavations at the IronAge Oppidum of Monte Bernorioand the Roman settlement of HuertaVaronainNorthernSpain. Dirk Krausse is Head Archaeologist at the State Office for Cultural Her- itageBaden-WürttembergandProfessorattheUniversityofTübingen.He has directed excavations at the Oppidum of Wallendorf and the ‘princely seats’of Mont Lassois in Central France and the Heuneburg in Southern Germany. Among his books are Hochdorf III: Das Trink- und Speiseservice aus dem späthallstattzeitlichen Fürstengrab von Eberdingen-Hochdorf (1996) and EisenzeitlicherKulturwandelundRomanisierungimMosel-Eifel-Raum(2006). EURASIA AT THE DAWN OF HISTORY URBANIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE Editedby MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ UniversityofEdinburgh DIRK KRAUSSE StateOfficeforCulturalHeritageBaden-WürttembergandUniversityofTübingen OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107147409 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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CONTENTS List of Figures page ix List of Tables xv List of Contributors xvii INTRODUCTION 1 MATERIALITIESOFCOMPLEXITYINANCIENTEURASIA 3 ManuelFernández-GötzandDirkKrausse PART I BETWEEN MYTH AND LOGOS 2 COGNITIVEARCHAEOLOGYANDTHEMAKINGOFTHE HUMANMIND 23 ColinRenfrew 3 HISTORYOFWRITING,HISTORYOFRATIONALITY 40 DavidR.Olson 4 THEIMPACTOFSOCIALDIFFERENTIATIONONIDENTITY: LIGHTSANDSHADOWSOFTHEINDIVIDUALIZATION PROCESS 52 AlmudenaHernando PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION 5 THENEOLITHICCONQUESTOFTHEMEDITERRANEAN 67 JeanGuilaine 6 LOW-DENSITYURBANISM:THECASEOFTHETRYPILLIA GROUPOFUKRAINE 81 JohnChapmanandBisserkaGaydarska v vi CONTENTS 7 FROMTHENEOLITHICTOTHEIRONAGE– DEMOGRAPHYANDSOCIALAGGLOMERATION:THE DEVELOPMENTOFCENTRALIZEDCONTROL? 106 JohannesMüller PART III APPROACHING SOCIAL COMPLEXITY 8 EARLYSTATEFORMATIONFROMABIGHISTORYPOINT OFVIEW 127 FredSpier 9 REFRAMINGANCIENTECONOMIES:NEWMODELS,NEW QUESTIONS 139 GaryM.Feinman PART IV URBANISM THROUGH THE AGES: CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND DEFINITIONS 10 HOWCANARCHAEOLOGISTSIDENTIFYEARLYCITIES? DEFINITIONS,TYPES,ANDATTRIBUTES 153 MichaelE.Smith 11 CITIESBETWEENDE-TERRITORIALIZATIONAND NETWORKING:ONTHEDYNAMICSOFURBANIZATION INTHEGLOBALCONTEXT 169 HansPeterHahn PART V ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AT THE TURN OF THE AXIS 12 EGYPTINTHE‘AXIALAGE’ 183 JanAssmann 13 CONSERVATIVEVERSUSINNOVATIVECULTURALAREAS INTHENEAREASTCA.800–400BC 198 MarioLiverani 14 ELITEBURIALSINFIRST-MILLENNIUMBCCHINA: TOWARDSINDIVIDUALIZATION 211 AlainThote CONTENTS vii 15 GIANTTUMULIOFTHEIRONAGE:TRADITION– MONUMENTALITY–KNOWLEDGETRANSFER 225 SvendHansen PART VI TIMES OF CONNECTIVITY: THE MEDITERRANEAN ON THE MOVE 16 AGENCY,STRUCTURE,ANDTHEUNCONSCIOUSINTHE LONGUEDURÉE 243 JohnBintliff 17 PHOENICIANSABROAD:FROMMERCHANTVENTURERS TOCOLONISTS 254 MaríaEugeniaAubet 18 SPHERESOFINTERACTION:TEMPERATEEUROPEAND THEMEDITERRANEANWORLDINTHEIRONAGE 265 JohnR.Collis PART VII EARLY URBAN CULTURES FROM SOUTH TO NORTH 19 THEDETERMINACYOFSPACEANDSTATEFORMATIONIN ARCHAICGREECE 279 JonathanM.Hall 20 INTERCULTURALNETWORKSANDURBANIZATIONIN SOUTHERNITALYINTHEEARLYIRONAGE 291 MassimoOsanna 21 POWERANDPLACEINETRURIA 304 SimonStoddart 22 URBANIZATIONPROCESSESANDCULTURALCHANGEIN THEEARLYIRONAGEOFCENTRALEUROPE 319 ManuelFernández-GötzandDirkKrausse 23 FOUNDINGRITUALSANDMYTHSINTHEKELTIKÉ 336 MartínAlmagro-Gorbea viii CONTENTS PART VIII CHANGING SYMBOLS, CHANGING MINDS? 24 PHASETRANSITION,AXIALAGE,ANDAXIS DISPLACEMENT:FROMTHEHALLSTATTTOTHELATÈNE CULTUREINTHEREGIONSNORTHWESTOFTHEALPS 353 RudolfEcht 25 EARLYCELTICARTINCONTEXT 370 Otto-HermanFrey 26 IMAGES,ORNAMENT,ANDCOGNITIONINEARLYLA TÈNEEUROPE:ANEWSTYLEFORACHANGINGWORLD 380 PeterS.Wells 27 THENETWORKGENESISOFTHELATÈNECULTURES:A WESTERNPOINTOFVIEW 392 Pierre-YvesMilcent Index 407