Persistence as Sustainability

Exploring Urban Longevity in South-West Asia and Egypt

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ID19590239
AutoresDan Lawrence (0000-0001-5613-1243), Israel Hinojosa-Baliño (0000-0002-7693-426X), Francesca Chelazzi (0000-0002-8439-0776)
Ano2025
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas85-97
Data de publicação2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Urban Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2736-2426 • E-ISSN: 2736-2434
EditoraBrepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1484/j.jua.5.150269
OpenAlexW4412132597
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

The concept of settlement persistence, the duration of occupation of a settlement, has gained traction in archaeology as a way of articulating analyses of past societies in relation to sustainability science. Here we compare the durations of large settlements across South-West Asia and the Nile Delta from 10,000 to 1000 years bp to investigate the drivers of persistence, and therefore sustainability. We find some regional differences in mean persistence, although these are muted, and that larger sites are more persistent than smaller ones. Persistence also decreases over time. Finally, we compare urban persistence to polity persistence, using the MOROS dataset on polity durations. We find that in our region cities are more persistent than polities, but that the distribution of the datasets is similar. Our results suggest there may be regularities in the mortality profiles of more-than-human systems such as cities and states, which merit further attention

Biology · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Longevity · Sociology · South asia · Sustainability · Urban Sustainability · Demography · History · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Ecology