1. Introduction: The Social Construction of Ancient Cities / Monica L. Smith
2. Teotihuacan: Cosmic Glories and Mundane Needs / George L. Cowgill
3. The Spatial Patterns of Everyday Life in Old Babylonian Neighborhoods / Kathryn Keith
4. Life behind Walls: Patterns in the Urban Landscape on the Prehistoric North Coast of Peru / Jerry D. Moore
5. Early Urban Configurations on the Middle Niger: Clustered Cities and Landscapes of Power / Roderick J. McIntosh and Susan Keech McIntosh
6. Untangling the Ties that Bind: The City, the Countryside, and the Nature of Maya Urbanism at Xunantunich, Belize / Jason Yaeger
7. Food Provisioning in Urban Societies: A View from Northern Mesopotamia / Melinda A. Zeder
8. Cities as a Place of Ethnogenesis: Urban Growth and Centralization in the Chicama Valley, Peru / Christopher J. Attarian
9. The Moral Community: Maya Settlement Transformation at Piedras Negras, Guatemala / Stephen Houston, Hector Escobedo, Mark Child, Charles Golden and Rene Munoz
10. Urban Social Transformations and the Problem of the "First City": New Research from Mesopotamia / Geoff Emberling
11. Early Walled Cities of the Indian Subcontinent as "Small Worlds" / Monica L. Smith
12. Compromises and Conflicts: Production and Commerce in the Royal Cities of Eastern Zhou, China / Chen Shen
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