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Sunday, January 21, 2024

Amazonian "Garden Urbanism": A skeptical account

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This new paper in Science is getting alot of publicity, and people are asking for my views ( Rostain, et al. 2024)  The paper presents fasc...
Friday, July 21, 2023

Why I rarely get excited by news stories about ancient cities

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There is a media story going around this week about the discovery of a new, "hidden Maya city." Here is the story in the NY  Times...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

Nailing my theses to the internet, part 2 of 2

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  This is the second of two posts on my fundamental “theses”: the basic principles of my approach to premodern cities and urbanism.   See th...

Nailing my theses to the internet, part 1 of 2

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Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of the church to mark the public expression of his ideas. I believe that scholars should similar...
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Michael E. Smith
I am an archaeologist who has excavated Aztec provincial houses in Mexico to reconstruct the political economy of ancient life. I now work primarily on comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to ancient cities. Does research on early cities have anything to teach us about fundamental urban processes such as resilience, adaptation, and change? I'd like to know. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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