TY - BOOK AU - Aufrecht,Walter Emanuel AU - Mirau,Neil A. AU - Gauley,Steven W. TI - Urbanism in antiquity: from Mesopotamia to Crete SN - 185075666X (acidfree paper) PY - 1997/// CY - Sheffield, Eng. PB - Sheffield Academic Press KW - Cities and towns, Ancient KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Urbanization N1 - Papers from a conference at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, in January 1996; Spatial perspectives on early urban development in Mesopotamia / E.B. Banning -- Writing as a factor in the rise of urbanism / Ronald F.G. Sweet -- Urbanisation et 'redistribution' de surplus agricoles en Mésopotamie septentrionale (3000-2500 av. J.-C.) / Michel Fortin -- Craft specialization and the rise of secondary urbanism : a view from the Southern Levant / Steven A. Rosen -- The agricultural base of urbanism in the Early Bronze II-III Levant / Arlene Miller Rosen -- The social context of early iron working in the Levant / Neil A. Mirau -- Urbanization and Northwest Semitic inscriptions of the late Bronze and Iron Ages / Walter E. Aufrecht -- Learning to love the king : urbanism and the state in Iron Age Moab / Bruce Routledge -- Urbanism at Tell el-ʻUmeiri during the late Bronze IIB-Iron IA transition / Larry G. Herr -- Tell Jawa : a case study of Ammonite urbanism during Iron Age II / P.M. Michèle Daviau -- Archaeology, urbanism, and the rise of the Israelite state / William G. Dever -- The urban center of Jerusalem and the development of the literature of the Hebrew Bible / Ehud Ben Zvi -- The ancient Egyptian 'city' : figment or reality? / Donald B. Redford -- Temple as the center in ancient Egyptian urbanism / Carolyn Routledge -- 'Metro' Nea Paphos : suburban sprawl in southwestern Cyprus in the Hellenistic and earlier Roman periods / David W. Rupp -- Palace-centered polities in eastern Crete : neopalatial Petras and its neighbors / Metaxia Tsipopoulou -- A viiw from the outskirts : realignments from modern to postmodern in the archaeological study of urbanism / D. Bruce Mackay ER -