Beyond Iron Age 'towns': Examining oppida as examples of low-density urbanism
Beyond Iron Age 'towns': Examining oppida as examples of low-density urbanism
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超越铁器时代的“城镇”：将奥皮达视为低密度城市化的例子
DOI：
10.1111/ojoa.12116
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发表时间：
2017
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0.7
通讯作者：
Moore T
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作者：
Moore T
关于铁器时代晚期欧洲的奥皮达是否真的是“城市”的问题，自世纪以来一直主导着关于这些遗址的辩论。然而，令人惊讶的是，尽管对城市现象的性质和多样性的看法越来越微妙，但Oppida却没有出现在比较城市研究中。特别是，罗兰弗莱彻暗示奥皮达可能代表了更广泛的低密度城市化的替代形式的一部分，这在很大程度上被铁器时代的学者和城市化专家所忽视。随着许多奥皮达的复杂性现在变得越来越明显，我建议现在是一个恰当的时间来评估弗莱彻的主张，并研究奥皮达是否可以令人信服地与世界其他地方的低密度城市化进行比较，如果可以的话，这对理解铁器时代社会可能有什么影响。本文认为，奥皮达确实表现出低密度城市化的特征，这可能是由于铁器时代社会中权力的谈判性质。
The question of whether Late Iron Age oppida in Europe were truly ‘urban’ has dominated debate over these sites since the nineteenth century. Oppida have been surprisingly absent from comparative urban studies, however, despite increasingly nuanced perspectives on the nature and diversity of the urban phenomenon. In particular, Roland Fletcher's implication that oppida might represent part of a broader alternative form of low‐density urbanism has been largely overlooked, by Iron Age scholars and urbanism specialists alike. With the complex nature of many oppida now becoming increasingly apparent, I suggest it is a pertinent time to assess Fletcher's claim and examine whether oppida can be convincingly compared to low‐density urbanism elsewhere in the world and, if so, what implications this might have for understanding Iron Age societies. This paper argues that oppida do indeed display aspects of low‐density urbanism and that this is likely to be due to the negotiated nature of power in Iron Age societies.