Further reading

Blanton, R.E. and L. Fargher. Collective Action in the Formation of Pre-modern States. New York: Springer, 2008.

Boserup, E. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The Economics of Agrarian Change under Population Pressure.

Childe, V.G. ‘The urban revolution.' Town Planning Review, 21 (1950), 3-17.

Cowgill, G.L. ‘Origins and development of urbanism: archaeological perspectives.' Annual Review of Anthropology, 33 (2004), 525-42.

Fisher, C.T., S.J. Leisz, and J.F. Weishampel. ‘Geospatial revolution and remote sensing LiDAR in Mesoamerican archaeology.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (2012), 12916-21.

Heckenberger, M.J., J.C. Russell, C. Fausto, et al. ‘Pre-Columbian urbanism, anthropogenic landscapes, and the future of the Amazon.' Science, 321 (2008), 1214-17.

Kron, G. ‘Food production.' In W. Schiedel (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 156-74.

Marcus, J. and J. Sabloff (eds.). The Ancient City: New Perspectives on Urbanism in the Old and New World. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research, 2008.

Marcus, J. and C. Stanish (eds.). Agricultural Strategies. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 2006.

Marston, J.M. ‘Archaeological markers of agricultural risk management.' Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 30 (2011), 190-205.

McAnany, P.A. and N. Yoffee (eds.). Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

McIntosh, RJ. Ancient Middle Niger: Urbanism and the Self-OrganizingLandscape. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

McIntosh, S.K. ‘Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the inland Niger delta, Mali.' In S.K. McIntosh (ed.), Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa.

Menze, B.H. and J.A. Ur. ‘Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in northern Mesopotamia at a large scale.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (2012), 778-87.

Morrison, K.D. ‘The intensification of production: archaeological approaches.' Journal of ArchaeologicalMethod and Theory, 1 (1994), 111-59.

Ogundiran, A. ‘Four millennia of cultural history in Nigeria (ca. 2000 bc-ad 1900): archaeological perspectives.' Journal of World Prehistory, 19 (2005), 133-68.

Pollock, S. Ancient Mesopotamia: The Eden that Never Was. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Redman, C.L. Human Impact on Ancient Environments. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Rosen, A. Civilizing Climate: Social Responses to Climate Change in the Ancient Near East. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007.

Sanders, W.T., A.G.M. de Escobar, and R.H. Cobean (eds.). Urbanism in Mesoamerica. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003.

Smith, A. The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Smith, M. (ed.). The Social Construction of Ancient Cities. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.

Stone, G.D. Settlement Ecology: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Storey, G.D. (ed.). Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Trigger, B. Understanding Early Civilizations. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Turner, B. and J. Sabloff. ‘Classic period collapse of the Central Maya lowlands: insights about human-environment relationships for sustainability.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (2012), 13908-14.

van de Mieroop, M. The Ancient Mesopotamian City. Oxford University Press, 1997.

Weber, M. The City, trans. D. Martindale and G. Neuwirth. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1958 [1921].

Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. 3 vols. New York: Bedminster Press, 1968 [1922].

Wittfogel, K.A. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957.

Zeder, M.A. Feeding Cities: Specialized Animal Economy in the Ancient Near East. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.