Post to blog : Smartphonography Club : Oxidized Memories
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https://www.smartphonography.club/2026/03/oxidized-memories/
Post to blog : Smartphonography Club : Ancient Social Network: The Lost Child Pillar
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https://www.smartphonography.club/2026/03/ancient-social-network-the-lost-child-pillar/
'Sustainable Giant-Sites?: Resilience and Continuance in Large Low-Occupation-Density Settlements' - an article published by #Brepols in the Journal of Urban Archaeology (JUA) on #ScienceOpen.
📄🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=3402d118-4c43-4f63-ae37-2d3befa4e355
#UrbanArchaeology #GiantSites #LowDensityUrbanism #Sustainability
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3099e55">Most large low-occupation-density settlements (LLODS) in the size range up to around 100 km <sup>2</sup> were enlarged versions of local settlement forms with deep ancestry in both their own cultures and in broader, more sustained transcultural interaction networks. They rarely outlasted their culture systems and did not usually reappear in successive cultures in the same region. They were dependent on the sustainability of the regional systems which produced them and tended not to outlast changes which impacted on their baseline capacities. Under very specific circumstances a few LLODS, however, continued to grow and transform by adapting their operational parameters to accommodate larger regional shifts. They played distinctly different long-term roles from conventional compact urbanism and did not apparently lead to sustainable transformations which produced the large agrarian urban low-density settlements. </p>
'Were the Oppida Sustainable? Examining the Persistence and Provisioning of Late Iron Age Agglomerations in Temperate Europe' - an article published by #Brepols in the Journal of Urban Archaeology (JUA) on #ScienceOpen.
📄🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=550a3d54-622c-476f-a190-9c70db9888f7
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d3772e66">During the last two centuries <span style="font-variant: small-caps">bc</span>, large fortified settlements known as <i>oppida </i>developed across extensive parts of temperate Europe, from France to Hungary and from Spain to Britain. Due to their significant size and socio-economic roles, the <i>oppida </i>— or at least most of them — have traditionally been identified as the first towns of pre-Roman temperate Europe. However, research over the last few decades has shown that urban centres had already developed earlier in the Iron Age, both in the form of fortified sites (the so-called ‘princely seats’) and open agglomerations. Some authors have argued that the <i>oppida </i>represented a ‘wrong step’ towards urbanization that surpassed the economic potential of Late Iron Age societies, making these settlements destined to fail. Others, contrastingly, envisage the <i>oppida </i>as the culmination of urbanization trajectories in the Iron Age. In this article, we review the question of the sustainability of the <i>oppida </i>focusing particularly on settlement persistence (i.e. how long did the <i>oppida </i>last) and the provisioning of these centres with foodstuffs and other goods. General reflections are combined with references to selected case studies from Western and Central Europe, challenging some previous notions but also highlighting gaps in our knowledge. </p>
The Journal of Urban Archaeology (JUA) is the first dedicated scholarly journal to recognize #UrbanArchaeology as a field within its own right. 🏺🏙️ #Brepols
Discover the Collection on #ScienceOpen ⤵️
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/Brepols_JUA
Part of the current archaeological excavations of the Kelvin Wheelies Skate Park in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. Opened in 1978, this was Scotland's first skate park. The excavations have revealed that there's a surprsing amount of it left just below the surface. I think this was the side-by-side slalom run.
#glasgow #kelvingrovepark #kelvinwheelies #skateboarding #archaeology #urbanarchaeology
Bunjin
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Rodolfo Sosa Medina
ScienceOpen
Sue Runkowski[a]
This Is My Glasgow