Monica L Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77192 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Monica L Smith |
| NOMBRES | Monica L |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH M L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0612-6643 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 392 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Deurbanisation as lateral stratigraphy
Vegetarianism in the pandemic era
Historically, individuals' rationales for vegetarianism have fallen into one or more of five categories: personal health; empathy towards animals; identity and group belonging through foodways; long-term environmental concerns regarding animal agriculture; and economic reasons related to the expense of meat. With the advent of COVID-19 and its associated social and economic changes across the globe, a sixth rationale for vegetarianism has emerged…
The Fundamentals of the State
Although ubiquitous today, the "state" did not always exist. Archaeological and historical assessments of state beginnings-and research on the characteristics of the state form in both past and present-help address how the state as a social, economic, and territorial construct became dominant. Utilizing the categories of politics, violence, literacy, and borders, this article examines how individuals and households are mutually implicated in nego…
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
Linear Statecraft along the Nile
States in archaeological and historical parlance generally are large and dynamic entities with continually fluctuating borders and boundaries across large land masses. States also are characterized by multiple nodes of settlement and multiple regions of resource availability within those large land masses, including agricultural fields, animal pastures, raw materials, and labor power. The northeastern African continent however provides a rather d…
The process of complex societies
The site-size hierarchy concept enables researchers to transform archaeological survey data into political classifications. Yet everything about the site-size rubric is worth re-thinking, from the reliability of surface-survey data to the recognition that sites of all sizes act autonomously within territorial configurations. New ways can visualize and analyze the process whereby complex societies (chiefdoms and states) emerge through the material…
The Phenomenology of Neighborhoods in the Early Historic Period of the Indian Subcontinent (3rd Century BCE - 4th Century CE)
Neighborhoods are places of social interdependence expressed in material forms of proximity represented by closely packed households, pathways, and open spaces. Archaeological remains provide the opportunity to analyze neighborhoods as the physical locale of urban residence that included daily routines of eating, sleeping, and self-care; regular acquisition of provisions; and interactions with other people. However, the experiences of neighborhoo…
Monsoons, rice production, and urban growth
In discussions of human-environmental dynamics and climate change, treatments of water usually focus on the problem of drought. Monsoon environments constitute a different set of parameters for landscape interactions because of seasonal episodes of water abundance. In this paper, we evaluate the microscale management of routine and anticipated high-water events for the ancient Indian subcontinent, where people used the monsoon cycle to engage in …
Urbanism and the Middle Class
Beginning six thousand years ago, intermediate categories of socioeconomic status formed for the first time in cities as entrepreneurial individuals and households engaged in scaled-up manufacturing activities and in new types of “white collar” work, such as accounting, writing, and middle management. Knowledge workers were indispensable not only for the production and trade activities that characterized ancient cities, but also for the growth an…
Abundance: The Archaeology of Plenitude
Abundance
Urban infrastructure as materialized consensus
Infrastructure that shapes and facilitates daily life, such as pathways, conduits and boundary walls, constitutes one of the most dynamic forms of architecture in both ancient and modern cities. Although infrastructure is conceived and designed with particular goals and capacities, its temporal and spatial scale means that it is a constant work in progress that engages numerous agents: civic authorities design and implement infrastructure; design…
Finding history
Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’
In this paper, Axel Christophersen does three important things. First, he addresses the way in which the inhabitants of premodern cities created an urban ethos through their cumulative daily actions. Second, he provides the opportunity to address a long-standing definitional challenge in the study of cities by examining what it means to undergo a process of ‘urbanization’. Finally, he focuses our attention on medieval Scandinavia as a region that…
Feasts and Their Failures
Citizen Science in Archaeology
Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the creation of mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex phenomena. Citizen science efforts in other field disciplines such as biology, geography, and astronomy indicate how new web-based interfaces can enhance and expand upon archaeologists’ existing platforms of volunteer engagement such as field schools, community arch…
The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are manifested in architecture and spatial organizations that configure relationships on the basis of economic status, ethnicity, occupation, age grade, and gender within the city. Outer landscapes are composed of the hinterlands on which urban centers depend for resource…
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
Archaeology as a Gateway to the Four Fields
Urban empty spaces. Contentious places for consensus-building
As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of deliberately empty spaces in urban areas both past and present signals the conscious creation and maintenance of those locales at various levels: household, neighbourhood and civic/centralizing. Domestic empty space, in particular the space between and among habitations, was l…
Inconspicuous Consumption
"Model Employees"
The Archaeology of South Asian Cities
The Indus Civilization
Reviewed by: The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective Monica L. Smith The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. Gregory L. Possehl. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002. 280 pp., paperback. $32.95. ISBN 075-910-172-8. It is a marker of the increasing visibility of South Asian archaeology that there are now textbooks on the subject for undergraduate audiences, the most recent of which is Gregory Possehl's The Indus Civilizati…
How Ancient Agriculturalists Managed Yield Fluctuations through Crop Selection and Reliance on Wild Plants
Networks, Territories, and the Cartography of Ancient States
With broad lines and dark shading, the cartographic depictions of ancient states and empires convey the impression of comprehensive political entities having firm boundaries and uniform territorial control. These depictions oversimplify the complexities of early state growth, as well as overstating the capacity of central governments to control large territories. Archaeological and textual evidence suggests that ancient states are better understo…
The Archaeology of Food Preference
Food preference is a socially constructed concept in which both consumers and producers define what is "good to eat." Staple crops and daily meals are an important component of these definitions, as the regular use of particular foods reinforces norms of identity. Food preferences also affect agricultural systems because choices among cultivars are based on social needs in addition to economic variables such as yield and caloric value. Through te…
The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are manifested in architecture and spatial organizations that configure relationships on the basis of economic status, ethnicity, occupation, age grade, and gender within the city. Outer landscapes are composed of the hinterlands on which urban centers depend for resource…
The Role of Ordinary Goods in Premodern Exchange
Urban infrastructure as materialized consensus
Infrastructure that shapes and facilitates daily life, such as pathways, conduits and boundary walls, constitutes one of the most dynamic forms of architecture in both ancient and modern cities. Although infrastructure is conceived and designed with particular goals and capacities, its temporal and spatial scale means that it is a constant work in progress that engages numerous agents: civic authorities design and implement infrastructure; design…
Urban empty spaces. Contentious places for consensus-building
As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of deliberately empty spaces in urban areas both past and present signals the conscious creation and maintenance of those locales at various levels: household, neighbourhood and civic/centralizing. Domestic empty space, in particular the space between and among habitations, was l…
Feasts and Their Failures
Inconspicuous Consumption
The Archaeology of South Asian Cities
Citizen Science in Archaeology
Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the creation of mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex phenomena. Citizen science efforts in other field disciplines such as biology, geography, and astronomy indicate how new web-based interfaces can enhance and expand upon archaeologists’ existing platforms of volunteer engagement such as field schools, community arch…
Urbanism and the Middle Class
Beginning six thousand years ago, intermediate categories of socioeconomic status formed for the first time in cities as entrepreneurial individuals and households engaged in scaled-up manufacturing activities and in new types of “white collar” work, such as accounting, writing, and middle management. Knowledge workers were indispensable not only for the production and trade activities that characterized ancient cities, but also for the growth an…
How Ancient Agriculturalists Managed Yield Fluctuations through Crop Selection and Reliance on Wild Plants
The process of complex societies
The site-size hierarchy concept enables researchers to transform archaeological survey data into political classifications. Yet everything about the site-size rubric is worth re-thinking, from the reliability of surface-survey data to the recognition that sites of all sizes act autonomously within territorial configurations. New ways can visualize and analyze the process whereby complex societies (chiefdoms and states) emerge through the material…
"Indianization" from the Indian Point of View
The idea that Indian "influence" was responsible for the socio-political development of early Southeast Asia is now largely discredited, but the question of the actual impact of early trade between India and Southeast Asia remains. Prior to the fourth century C.E., Indian trade activities with Southeast Asia appear to have been relatively infrequent, when assessed through the number of items of Indian origin recovered, and the incentives for such…
Monsoons, rice production, and urban growth
In discussions of human-environmental dynamics and climate change, treatments of water usually focus on the problem of drought. Monsoon environments constitute a different set of parameters for landscape interactions because of seasonal episodes of water abundance. In this paper, we evaluate the microscale management of routine and anticipated high-water events for the ancient Indian subcontinent, where people used the monsoon cycle to engage in …
Linear Statecraft along the Nile
States in archaeological and historical parlance generally are large and dynamic entities with continually fluctuating borders and boundaries across large land masses. States also are characterized by multiple nodes of settlement and multiple regions of resource availability within those large land masses, including agricultural fields, animal pastures, raw materials, and labor power. The northeastern African continent however provides a rather d…
The archaeology of a “Destroyed” Site
The Phenomenology of Neighborhoods in the Early Historic Period of the Indian Subcontinent (3rd Century BCE - 4th Century CE)
Neighborhoods are places of social interdependence expressed in material forms of proximity represented by closely packed households, pathways, and open spaces. Archaeological remains provide the opportunity to analyze neighborhoods as the physical locale of urban residence that included daily routines of eating, sleeping, and self-care; regular acquisition of provisions; and interactions with other people. However, the experiences of neighborhoo…
The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia
"Indianization" from the Indian Point of View
The idea that Indian "influence" was responsible for the socio-political development of early Southeast Asia is now largely discredited, but the question of the actual impact of early trade between India and Southeast Asia remains. Prior to the fourth century C.E., Indian trade activities with Southeast Asia appear to have been relatively infrequent, when assessed through the number of items of Indian origin recovered, and the incentives for such…
The Role of Ordinary Goods in Premodern Exchange
The archaeology of a “Destroyed” Site
Archaeological Investigations at Ziyaret Tepe - 2002
Networks, Territories, and the Cartography of Ancient States
With broad lines and dark shading, the cartographic depictions of ancient states and empires convey the impression of comprehensive political entities having firm boundaries and uniform territorial control. These depictions oversimplify the complexities of early state growth, as well as overstating the capacity of central governments to control large territories. Archaeological and textual evidence suggests that ancient states are better understo…
"Model Employees"
The Archaeology of South Asian Cities
The Indus Civilization
Reviewed by: The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective Monica L. Smith The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. Gregory L. Possehl. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2002. 280 pp., paperback. $32.95. ISBN 075-910-172-8. It is a marker of the increasing visibility of South Asian archaeology that there are now textbooks on the subject for undergraduate audiences, the most recent of which is Gregory Possehl's The Indus Civilizati…
How Ancient Agriculturalists Managed Yield Fluctuations through Crop Selection and Reliance on Wild Plants
The Archaeology of Food Preference
Food preference is a socially constructed concept in which both consumers and producers define what is "good to eat." Staple crops and daily meals are an important component of these definitions, as the regular use of particular foods reinforces norms of identity. Food preferences also affect agricultural systems because choices among cultivars are based on social needs in addition to economic variables such as yield and caloric value. Through te…
Inconspicuous Consumption
Urban empty spaces. Contentious places for consensus-building
As a relatively recent human phenomenon, cities are the physical culmination of many pre-existing psychological, social and cognitive capacities. The persistent presence of deliberately empty spaces in urban areas both past and present signals the conscious creation and maintenance of those locales at various levels: household, neighbourhood and civic/centralizing. Domestic empty space, in particular the space between and among habitations, was l…
Archaeology as a Gateway to the Four Fields
A Prehistory of Ordinary People
Feasts and Their Failures
Citizen Science in Archaeology
Citizen science, as a process of volunteer participation through crowdsourcing, facilitates the creation of mass data sets needed to address subtle and large-scale patterns in complex phenomena. Citizen science efforts in other field disciplines such as biology, geography, and astronomy indicate how new web-based interfaces can enhance and expand upon archaeologists’ existing platforms of volunteer engagement such as field schools, community arch…
The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
Urban centers have inner and outer landscapes whose physical remains can be read as the materialization of social, political, economic, and ritual interactions. Inner landscapes are manifested in architecture and spatial organizations that configure relationships on the basis of economic status, ethnicity, occupation, age grade, and gender within the city. Outer landscapes are composed of the hinterlands on which urban centers depend for resource…
Towns and cities. A commentary on ‘performing towns’
In this paper, Axel Christophersen does three important things. First, he addresses the way in which the inhabitants of premodern cities created an urban ethos through their cumulative daily actions. Second, he provides the opportunity to address a long-standing definitional challenge in the study of cities by examining what it means to undergo a process of ‘urbanization’. Finally, he focuses our attention on medieval Scandinavia as a region that…
Urban infrastructure as materialized consensus
Infrastructure that shapes and facilitates daily life, such as pathways, conduits and boundary walls, constitutes one of the most dynamic forms of architecture in both ancient and modern cities. Although infrastructure is conceived and designed with particular goals and capacities, its temporal and spatial scale means that it is a constant work in progress that engages numerous agents: civic authorities design and implement infrastructure; design…
Finding history
Abundance: The Archaeology of Plenitude
Abundance
Monsoons, rice production, and urban growth
In discussions of human-environmental dynamics and climate change, treatments of water usually focus on the problem of drought. Monsoon environments constitute a different set of parameters for landscape interactions because of seasonal episodes of water abundance. In this paper, we evaluate the microscale management of routine and anticipated high-water events for the ancient Indian subcontinent, where people used the monsoon cycle to engage in …
Urbanism and the Middle Class
Beginning six thousand years ago, intermediate categories of socioeconomic status formed for the first time in cities as entrepreneurial individuals and households engaged in scaled-up manufacturing activities and in new types of “white collar” work, such as accounting, writing, and middle management. Knowledge workers were indispensable not only for the production and trade activities that characterized ancient cities, but also for the growth an…
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