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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2018155118
	The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability
	Smith M.E.; Lobo J.; Peeples M.A.; York A.M.; Stanley B.W.; Crawford K.A.; Gauthier N.; Huster A.C.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	118 期号:20
英文摘要	We propose a dedicated research effort on the determinants of settlement persistence in the ancient world, with the potential to significantly advance the scientific understanding of urban sustainability today. Settlements (cities, towns, villages) are locations with two key attributes: They frame human interactions and activities in space, and they are where people dwell or live. Sustainability, in this case, focuses on the capacity of structures and functions of a settlement system (geography, demography, institutions) to provide for continuity of safe habitation. The 7,000-y-old experience of urbanism, as revealed by archaeology and history, includes many instances of settlements and settlement systems enduring, adapting to, or generating environmental, institutional, and technological changes. The field of urban sustainability lacks a firm scientific foundation for understanding the long durée, relying instead on narratives of collapse informed by limited case studies. We argue for the development of a new interdisciplinary research effort to establish scientific understanding of settlement and settlement system persistence. Such an effort would build upon the many fields that study human settlements to develop new theories and databases from the extensive documentation of ancient and premodern urban systems. A scientific foundation will generate novel insights to advance the field of urban sustainability. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Archaeology; Cities; Persistence; Sustainability; Urbanism
语种	英语
scopus关键词	ancient settlement; archeology; demography; ecology; environmental sustainability; ethnic group; geography; history; human; priority journal; Review; social aspects and related phenomena; social interaction; theory; urban sustainability
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238737
作者单位	School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States; University City Exchange, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States; Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States; School of Geography, Development and Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Smith M.E.,Lobo J.,Peeples M.A.,et al. The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability[J],2021,118(20).
APA	Smith M.E..,Lobo J..,Peeples M.A..,York A.M..,Stanley B.W..,...&Huster A.C..(2021).The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(20).
MLA	Smith M.E.,et al."The persistence of ancient settlements and urban sustainability".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.20(2021).