Settling the World
From Prehistory to the Metropolis Era
Perspectives Villes et TerritoiresÉditeur : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Lieu d’édition : Tours
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 19 octobre 2021
Collection : Perspectives Villes et Territoires
Année d’édition : 2021
Présentation
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.
Sommaire
Sander van der Leeuw
PrefaceLena Sanders
IntroductionA collective and interdisciplinary project on the transitions in settlement systems
Denise Pumain, Lena Sanders, Thérèse Libourel et al.
Chapter 1: Disciplinary convergences on the concept of transitionLaure Nuninger, Lena Sanders, Arnaud Banos et al.
Chapter 2: A generic conceptual framework for describing transitions in settlement systemsApplication to a corpus of twelve transitions between 70 000 BP and 2050
Arnaud Banos, Florent Le Néchet, Marie-Jeanne Ouriachi et al.
Chapter 3: Simulating transition: an introduction to spatio-temporel modelsChristophe Coupé, Jean-Marie Hombert, Florent Le Néchet et al.
Chapter 4: Transition 1: Modelling the migrations and peopling of new geographic areas by Homo sapiensChristophe Coupé, Jean-Marie Hombert, Florent Le Néchet et al.
Chapter 5: Transition 2: Modelling the peopling of an already inhabited territory: the case of expanding Bantu populations and Central African forest foragersTimothy A. Kohler et Stefani A. Crabtree
Chapter 6: Transition 3: Village and Polity Formation in Pueblo Societies: How Population Growth Channels Social Processes in Neolithic Societies. The «Village» modelDenise Pumain, Clara Schmitt et Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq
Chapter 7: Transition 4: Modelling the emergence of citiesLaure Nuninger, Pierre Garmy, Thérèse Libourel et al.
Chapter 8: Transition 5: Modelling the territorial mutations of the Iron Age in southern Gaul (6th-5th centuries BC)Marie-Jeanne Ouriachi, Frédérique Bertoncello et Alain Franc
Chapter 9: Transition 6: ‘romanisation’ (2nd century BCE – 1st century CE): power games between Romans and southern Gauls after the ConquestFrançois Favory, Hélène Mathian, Laurent Schneider et al.
Chapter 10: Transition 7: From the ancient to the medieval world (4th-8th centuries)Robin Cura, Cécile Tannier, Samuel Leturcq et al.
Chapter 11: Transition 8: 800-1200. Emergence of enduring, concentrated and hierarchised settlement patterns in rural regions of North-Western EuropeAnne Bretagnolle et Alain Franc
Chapter 12: Towards integrated systems of cities (France, 18th-19th centuries)Florent Le Néchet
Chapter 13: Transition 12: From urban sprawl to polycentric metropolitan regions: forms of functioning and forms of governanceCécile Tannier, Alain Franc, Marie-Jeanne Ouriachi et al.
Chapter 14: Between models and narratives: transitions in settlement systemsSébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq, Robin Cura, Laure Nuninger et al.
Chapter 15: Towards reproducible research in an interdisciplinary framework: issues and propositions regarding the transfer of the conceptual framework and the replication of modelsLena Sanders, CNRS, Thérèse Libourel et al.
Chapter 16: Ontological points of view on the transitions of settlement systemsMarie-Jeanne Ouriachi, Hélène Mathian, Elisabeth Zadora-Rio et al.
Chapter 17: From the conceptualisation of the transition to its modelling: interdisciplinary feedback on the TransMonDyn experimentLe texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.
