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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 works on Aztec sites and Teotihuacan.I do comparative and transdisciplinary research on cities, and also households, empires, and city-states. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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I am Professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change at Arizona State University; Affiliated Faculty in the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning; Fellow, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems; Core Faculty in the Center for Social Dynamics Complexity. Also, I have an affiliation with the Colegio Mexiquense in Toluca, Mexico.
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