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70 000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa to colonize the world. 6,000 years ago, he founded the first cities. Today, in the era of city networks, he is creating increasingly wide and complex metropolitan regions. From prehistory to the era of metropolises, man has occupied the earth's space in an infinite variety of ways, under the influence of a multitude of factors. How did the Bantu populate a space already occupied by the Pygmies in equatorial Africa? How were cities born in the Bronze Age? How did the pueblo society develop and then disappear in the United States? What were the effects of Romanization on the settlement of southern Gaul? How did the village system emerge around the year 1000 in Europe? This book addresses twelve major changes in global settlement formalized as "transitions". What is a transition? How can it be identified in the empirical field? Archaeologists, historians, linguists, and geographers combine their efforts to construct, analyze, and compare models of settlement transition in world history. Observing the particular, they seek the universal. This book proposes a method for understanding the laws of human settlement in the very long term.
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Table of contents
- Introductory pages
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Disciplinary convergences on the concept of transition
- Chapter 2: A generic conceptual framework for describing transitions in settlement systems
- Chapter 3: Simulating transition: an introduction to spatio-temporel models
- Chapter 4: Transition 1: Modelling the migrations and peopling of new geographic areas by Homo sapiens
- Chapter 5: Transition 2: Modelling the peopling of an already inhabited territory: the case of expanding Bantu populations and Central African forest foragers
- Chapter 6: Transition 3: Village and Polity Formation in Pueblo Societies: How Population Growth Channels Social Processes in Neolithic Societies. The «Village» model
- Chapter 7: Transition 4: Modelling the emergence of cities
- Chapter 8: Transition 5: Modelling the territorial mutations of the Iron Age in southern Gaul (6th-5th centuries BC)
- Chapter 9: Transition 6: ‘romanisation’ (2nd century BCE – 1st century CE): power games between Romans and southern Gauls after the Conquest
- Chapter 10: Transition 7: From the ancient to the medieval world (4th-8th centuries)
- Chapter 11: Transition 8: 800-1200. Emergence of enduring, concentrated and hierarchised settlement patterns in rural regions of North-Western Europe
- Chapter 12: Towards integrated systems of cities (France, 18th-19th centuries)
- Chapter 13: Transition 12: From urban sprawl to polycentric metropolitan regions: forms of functioning and forms of governance
- Chapter 14: Between models and narratives: transitions in settlement systems
- Chapter 15: Towards reproducible research in an interdisciplinary framework: issues and propositions regarding the transfer of the conceptual framework and the replication of models
- Chapter 16: Ontological points of view on the transitions of settlement systems
- Chapter 17: From the conceptualisation of the transition to its modelling: interdisciplinary feedback on the TransMonDyn experiment