Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

The widely accepted narrative of the first cities in the world has long been reliant on the high-density Late Uruk tells of the 4th millennium calBC, located in the Fertile Crescent. However, recent research offers a challenge to this view in the light of the ever-growing discovery of low-density urban sites in many continents (most recently a series of massive Amazonian sites). In today’s talk, we discuss high- vs. low-density urban sites before turning to our own fieldwork in the Ukraine...