Ancient Middle Niger

Urbanism and the Self-organizing Landscape

By: Roderick. J. McIntosh

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Hardcover | 29 September 2005

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The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient urbanism. The cities of the Middle Niger present the archaeologist with something of a novelty; a non-nucleated, clustered city-plan with no centralized, state-focused power. Ancient Middle Niger explores the emergence of these cities in the first millennium B.C. and the evolution of their hinterlands from the perspective of the self-organized landscape. Cities appeared in a series of profound transforms to the human-land relations and this book illustrates how each transform was a leap in complexity. The book ends with an examination of certain critical moments in the emergence of other urban landscapes in Mesopotamia, along the Nile, and in northern China, through a Middle Niger lens. Highly-illustrated throughout, this work is a key text for all students of African archaeology and of comparative pre-industrial urbanism.

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"...an impressive, path-breaking explanation of the origin of urban settlements on the Middle Niger River, climaxed by a fascinating final chapter in which the author offers a comparative overview of the archaeology of urban landscapes in Mesopotamia, the Nile valley, and northern China." -David C. Conrad, Emeritus, SUNY Oswego, American Historical Review

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List of illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. xii
Chronology	p. xv
Map of the Middle Niger	p. xvi
Discovery	p. 1
Jenne-jeno "discovered" to the world	p. 1
City without Citadel	p. 10
Ex astra (a brief history of values)	p. 21
Co-evolution: an alternative path	p. 27
Transformed landscapes	p. 45
Historical Ecology	p. 45
Mesopotamia, with a difference	p. 56
Paleoclimate: phase shifts at multiple time-scales	p. 73
Geokistics: risk, surprise, and subsistence security	p. 89
Accommodation	p. 101
Pulse Model	p. 101
Ground truthing the Pulse Model	p. 123
Specialists and the deep-time core rules of Mande	p. 129
Excavation	p. 144
Recognizing heterogeneity	p. 144
Anchors and variability: the core sequence	p. 162
"Polynucleated sprawl": Urban Clusters	p. 181
Surveying the hinterland	p. 192
Prior strategies	p. 192
Systematic urban hinterland	p. 197
Resilience, urban sustainability, and the self-organizing landscape	p. 203
Comparative urban landscapes	p. 209
Alternative cityscapes: Mesopotamia and the Nile	p. 209
China: the clustered alternative	p. 221
References	p. 230
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