Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches

460 Pages·2006·2.95 MB·English

by  Glenn Storey

Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

Urbanism in the
Preindustrial World
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Edited by Glenn R. Storey
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Urbanism in the preindustrial world : cross-cultural approaches / edited by Glenn R. Storey.
p. cm.
“Originated as an Archaeology Division session for the 95th Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association in Philadelphia, December 1998”—Ack.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1476-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8173-1476-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5246-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8173-5246-5
1. Cities and towns—History. 2. Urbanization—History. 3. Rural-urban
migration—History. 4. Population—History. I. Storey, Glenn Reed, 1955– II. Title.
HT111.U75 2006
307.76—dc22
2005014490
Glenn and Rebecca Storey dedicate this volume to their father, Reed Karl
Storey, an accountant who had the good humor to let two of his children
become anthropologists.
DIS MANIBUS SACRUM
R K STOREIO
TABULARIO
AICPA
FASB
VIXIT ANNIS LXXII
MENSIBUS V
DIEBUS XXVI
PATRI PIENTISSIMO
FILIA ET FILIUS INFELICISSIMI
BENE MERENTI FECERUNT
(Sacred to the Gods of the Shades:
To R. K. Storey, Accountant
American Institute of Certi¤ed Public Accountants
Financial Accounting Standards Board
He lived 72 years, 5 months, 26 days.
To a most upright father, his daughter and son, most unfortunate in their
loss, dedicated this to him because he merited it well.)

Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Urban Demography of the Past
Glenn R. Storey 1
THE WESTERN URBAN TRADITION
1. The Growth of Greek Cities in the First Millennium BC
Ian Morris 27
2. Did the Population of Imperial Rome Reproduce Itself?
Elio Lo Cascio 52
3. Epidemics, Age at Death, and Mortality in Ancient Rome
Richard R. Paine and Glenn R. Storey 69
4. Seasonal Mortality in Imperial Rome and the Mediterranean:
Three Problem Cases
Brent D. Shaw 86
5. Population Relationships in and around Medieval Danish Towns
Hans Christian Petersen, Jesper L. Boldsen, and Richard R. Paine 110
6. Colonial and Postcolonial New York: Issues of Size, Scale, and Structure
Nan A. Rothschild 121
URBAN SOCIETY ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
7. An Urban Population from Roman Upper Egypt
Roger S. Bagnall 139
viii contents
8. Precolonial African Cities: Size and Density
Chapurukha Kusimba, Sibel Barut Kusimba, and
Babatunde Agbaje-Williams 145
FAR EASTERN URBANIZATION
9. Urbanization in China: Erlitou and Its Hinterland
Li Liu 161
10. Population Growth and Change in the Ancient City of Kyongju
Sarah M. Nelson 190
11. Population Dynamics and Urbanism in Premodern Island Southeast Asia
Laura Lee Junker 203
URBAN CENTERS OF THE NEW WORLD
12. Identifying Tiwanaku Urban Populations: Style, Identity, and Ceremony in
Andean Cities
John Wayne Janusek and Deborah E. Blom 233
13. Late Classic Maya Population: Characteristics and Implications
Don S. Rice 252
14. Mortality through Time in an Impoverished Residence of the Precolumbian
City of Teotihuacan: A Paleodemographic View
Rebecca Storey 277
15. The Evolution of Regional Demography and Settlement in the Prehispanic
Basin of Mexico
L. J. Goren®o 295
CROSS-CULTURAL SYNTHESIS
16. Factoring the Countryside into Urban Populations
David B. Small 317
17. Shining Stars and Black Holes: Population and Preindustrial Cities
Deborah L. Nichols 330
References 341
Contributors 409
Index 415
Figures
Figure 1-1. Aegean Greek cities 26
Figure 1-2. Cities of the greater Greek world 29
Figure 3-1. Comparison Latin funerary inscriptions and best-¤tting
west model 72
Figure 3-2. Living age distribution, migrants 75
Figure 3-3. Change in the mortality pro¤le over the course of the
plague projection 76
Figure 3-4. The yearly intrinsic growth rate (r) of the projected
population 79
Figure 3-5. Comparison of age distribution of death between the inscription
sample and the best-¤tting west model:
(top) year 91; (bottom) year 33 83
Figure 4-1. Seasonal mortality: (top) city of Rome; (bottom) northern
Italy 87
Figure 4-2. Seasonal mortality: Parentium, Italy 93
Figure 4-3. Seasonal mortality: (top) Rome, late republic; (bottom) Rome,
late republic (adjusted) 100
Figure 4-4. Seasonal mortality: (top) Coptic Saqqara, Egypt; (bottom) Coptic
Aswân, Egypt 103
Figure 4-5. Seasonal mortality, Egypt: (top) 1923; (bottom) 1926 104
Figure 5-1. Maps of present-day Denmark 111
Figure 5-2. Age-at-death distributions: (a) Sct. Mikkel cemetery; (b) Sct. Mikkel
and Tirup cemeteries 113