Central Places and Un-Central Landscapes

<p>This volume examines the applicability of central place theory in contemporary archaeological practice and thought in light of ongoing developments in landscape archaeology by bringing together ‘central places’ and ‘un-central landscapes’ and by grasping diachronically the complex relation between town and country as shaped by political economies and the availability of natural resources. Moving away from model-bounded approaches central place theory is used more flexibly to include all the places that may have functioned as loci of economic or ideological centrality (even in a local context) in the past. Fourteen chapters examine centrality and un-central landscapes from Prehistory to the late Middle Ages in different geographical contexts from Cyprus and the Levant through Greece and the Balkans to Italy France and Germany.</p>