Rubina Raja is Professor of Classical Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions. She specializes in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology in a diachronic perspective with focus on urban societies.
Søren M. Sindbæk
is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark, and co-director of the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions. He specializes in viking and early medieval Europe, with a focus on urbanism and social networks.
List of Illustrations
Urban Archaeology: A New Agenda. Editorial — RUBINA RAJA AND SØREN M. SINDBÆK
Definitions and Comparisons in Urban Archaeology — MICHAEL E. SMITH
Urban Labels and Settlement Trajectories — ROLAND FLETCHER
Shades of Urbanism(s) and Urbanity in Pre-Colonial Africa: Towards Afro-Centred Interventions — SHADRECK CHIRIKURE
From Centre–Periphery Models to Textured Urban Landscapes: Comparative Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa — FEDERICA SULAS AND INNOCENT PIKIRAYI
Urban Networks in Latium — CHRISTOPHER SMITH
An Etruscan Urban Agenda: The Weaving Together of Traditions — SIMON STODDART
Urbanism in Iron Age Iberia: Two Worlds in Contact — GONZALO RUIZ ZAPATERO, JESÚS R. ÁLVAREZ-SANCHÍS, AND JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ-HERNÁNDEZ
Why Archaeology is Necessary for a Theory of Urbanization — SCOTT G. ORTMAN, MICHAEL E. SMITH, JOSÉ LOBO, AND LUÍS M. A. BETTENCOURT
The Backfill