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Pages: 312 p. Illustrations:36 b/w, 99 col., 11 tables b/w., 11 maps b/w, 53 maps color. Language(s):English. Brepols, Publication Year:2023. Paperback -- SUMMARY This special issue of Journal of Urban Archaeology is dedicated to settlements, which have been discussed in recent research debates as Anomalous Giants or Large Low Occupation Density Settlements . In contrast to the large, compact sites that are generally associated with urban societies, these were places characterized by lower densities not conventionally associated with urban settlements, although they can occur as the foci of seasonally fluctuating populations with periodically higher densities. Yet they are also distinct from the much-discussed pattern of far larger low-density agrarian-based urbanism . As the contributions here show, examples of such sites can be found in a variety of places and across many millennia. The wide variety of sites discussed in this issue underlines just how complex the data connected to them can be, but also gives insight into the opportunities that can be explored through a variety of approaches, and sheds light not only on how built structures were organized in landscapes, but also on how their populations interacted. Ultimately, this special issue demonstrates that studying these Anomalous Giants is essential for a better understanding of urbanism and its characteristics as a pattern of social networks. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Aknowledgements David and Goliath: Giants and Dwarfs in Settlement Archaeology Editorial Rubina Raja and Søren M. Sindbæk Experimenting with Large-Group Aggregation Nam C. Kim and Patricia A. McAnany Shijiahe and its Implications for Understanding the Development of Urbanism in Late Neolithic China Li Tao, Anne P. Underhill, and Shan Siwei Co Loa: Biography of an Anomalous Place Nam C. Kim, Hiep H. Trinh, Russell Quick, and Vo Thi Phuong Thuy Classic Ilé-Ifẹ̀: A Consideration of Scale in the Archaeology of Early Yorùbá Urbanism, AD 1000 1400 Akinwumi Ogundiran The Conundrum of Great Zimbabwe Innocent Pikirayi, Federica Sulas, Shadreck Chirikure, Joseph Chikumbirike, and Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya Place and Time at Trypillia Mega-Sites: Towards a New Synthesis of Analyses and Social Theory Bisserka Gaydarska, Andrew Millard, Brian Buchanan, and John Chapman Stonehenge: The Little Big Other Mike Parker Pearson Considering European Iron Age oppida and Comparative Urbanism: The Case of Bibracte and Manching Tom Moore, Ralf Hoppadietz, Holger Wendling, and Katja Winger The Sechín Alto Complex in the Pre-Hispanic Central Andes Henry Tantaleán and Charles Stanish From Frontier to Centre Place: The Dynamic Trajectory of the Chaco World Barbara J. Mills Cahokia as Urban Anomaly Timothy R. Pauketat, Susan M. Alt, Alleen M. Betzenhauser, Jeffery D. Kruchten, and Erin M. Benson Anomalous Giants: Form, Operation, Differences, and Outcomes Kirrily White and Roland Fletcher. N° de ref. del artículo ca218
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