Cities and Citadels

Adam S. Green is Lecturer in Sustainability in the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York (UK). He holds a PhD in anthropology from New York University (USA) and has more than a decade of experience leading collaborative fieldwork in India with Deccan College Post-graduate Institute for Archaeology and Banaras Hindu University.Toby C. Wilkinson is Senior Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (UK). He holds a PhD in archaeology from the University of Sheffield (UK), previously worked at the British Institute at Ankara and Istanbul University (Turkey) and at the Catalan Institute for Classical Archaeology, Tarragona (Spain). He has over 15 years of fieldwork experience in Turkey.Darryl Wilkinson is an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College (USA). He holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University (USA) and has over a decade of experience directing archaeological research in Peru and New Mexico.Nancy Highcock is a Curator for Mesopotamia in the Department for Middle East at the British Museum. She holds a PhD in Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian Studies from New York University (USA), worked in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA) and has over a decade of fieldwork experience in Turkey.Thomas P. Leppard holds a PhD in archaeology from Brown University (USA) and has directed archaeological fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and Pacific. He co-edited Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity in 2018 and Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History in 2023, and his research has been published in Science Advances, Current Anthropology, Environmental Conservation and Antiquity, amongst others.

"A collaborative undertaking by five authors, this volume offers a nuanced reading of the ancient economy, and of society at large, presented as a global narrative charting the emergence of differential wealth alongside the expansion of commerce...This important work is sure to have a profound impact, especially for the archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and economists who are its target audience."B. A. Ault, University at Buffalo, SUNY

• 1.Pasts: toward a critical paleoeconomics; 2.Cities: archaeology and egalitarian urbanism; 3.Citadels: the low-growth birth of stratified economies; 4.Measurement: a deep history of political metrology, money and value; 5.Merchants: Bronze Age millionaires and the rise of the affluent classes; 6.Billionaires: the Iron Age origin of oligarchy; 7.Futures: summarizing critical paleoeconomics