The Limits of Settlement Growth

A Theoretical Outline

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Hardcover | 25 December 1995

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In this study Roland Fletcher argues that the built environment becomes a constraint on the long-term development of a settlement. It is costly to move settlements, or to demolish and rebuild from scratch, so the initial layout and buildings, and the forms of communication that result, may come to shackle further development and also to place constraints on social and political change. Using this theoretical framework, Dr Fletcher reviews worldwide settlement growth over the past 15,000 years, and concludes with a major discussion of the great transformations of human settlements - from mobile to sedentary, sedentary to urban, and urban to industrial. This book is an ambitious contribution to archaeological theory, and the questions it raises also have implications for the future of urban settlement.

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'I found the book stimulating and thought provoking. I recommend it to anyone interested in settlement size, growth, sedentism and change throughout time ... the book is well worth the effort and time, and other readers will find other topics of interest in this complex but fascinating book.' American Antiquity '... this book is important; it is Big Picture archaeology at its best and a provocative and stimulating proposal worthy of consideration.' American Anthropologist

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List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Summary
Theoretical Context: The Role of the Material as Behaviour
Archaeology, settlement growth and the material component of human behaviour
The material as behaviour
A hierarchy of social explanation: locating the material
The Limits of Settlement Growth: Behavioural Stress and the Material Management of Community Life
The behavioural parameters of interaction and communication
Settlement growth trajectories
Settlement growth transitions and the role of the material
Implications: Transformations and Constraints of Community Life
The development of sedentism
The development of agrarian and industrial urbanism
Future urban growth
Technical notes
References
Index
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