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Four Lost Cities

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by Annalee Newitz


  living arrangements, Neolithic, 27

  Los Angeles, California, 258

  loss, recovering from, 13

  “lost city” trope, 4–5, 60–61

  “lost crops,” 220

  Louisiana, 211, 213

  Lower Mekong Basin, 198

  lunar standstill, 217

  Lustig, Eileen, 173, 176, 187–88

  magnetometers, 229

  maize, 219

  marshelder, 220

  Marzano, Annalisa, 101–2

  mass abandonments, 13

  “material entanglements,” 32–33

  matriarchy, 47–48

  Matthews, Wendy, 51

  Max Planck Institute, 148

  Mayans, 211, 237, 238

  maygrass, 220

  McAnany, Patricia, 238

  Mebon temple, 1–3

  Mefitis, 83

  “mega-sites,” 20

  mega-skyscrapers, 33

  mega-villages, 57, 66, 68–71

  Mekong River Delta, 166

  Mellaart, James, 46–48, 49, 51, 69

  men, farming and, 222

  Meru, Mount, 181

  Meskell, Lynn, 29, 48–49

  Mesoamerica, 236, 238, 239

  Miami University, 134

  Middle East, 26–27, 35, 37, 47, 105, 107. See also specific locations

  “middlers” class, 109, 114, 116, 138

  Middleton, Guy D., 238

  migration, 61, 64, 250–54. See also immigrants; mobility

  “Mississippian” culture, 9, 204–54

  mound architecture of, 252

  public life in, 213–18

  questioning authority and, 254

  spirituality and, 222–23

  surviving monuments of, 253–54

  Mississippi River, 210, 211, 218–19, 221, 241, 249, 251, 258

  Missouri, 212

  Missouri River, 251

  mobility, 70–71

  Molist, Miguel, 25

  Monks Mound, 9, 208, 212, 215, 221–24, 234, 235, 242

  hierarchy and, 217, 253–54

  rejection of, 243–48

  monoliths, stone, 33, 34, 36

  monsoon systems, 161–62

  monumental images, 35–36

  monumental structures, 33–34, 35, 212, 253–54. See also specific structures

  Moore, Sophie, 60

  Mossett, Amy, 219

  mother goddesses, 47

  Mouhot, Henri, 4, 183, 184

  Mound 72, 243–45

  mounds, 208–12, 233–34, 241, 243–44, 246. See also specific mounds

  mound architecture, 252

  mound cities, 211

  as stages, 216

  Mouritsen, Henrik, 101, 112–13

  Mueller, Natalie, 220

  Mumford, Lewis, 47

  Mun, 166

  Murtris, 120–21

  Nakamura, Carolyn, 48–49

  Naples, 7, 81, 85, 133–35

  Naples Archaeological Museum, 84

  Naples Bay, 132

  Naples Museum, 98

  “Secret Cabinet” area, 118, 121

  Natchez, 221

  National Geographic Society, 152

  Native Americans. See also specific groups

  ancestors of, 243

  use rights and, 221–22

  natural disasters. See also specific events, rescue efforts and, 259

  Nature Plants, 149

  neighbors, 31–32, 35, 62, 68

  Neolithic era, 5–6, 25–26, 28, 31, 42, 260

  architecture of, 33–34

  lactose intolerance and, 28

  reconstruction and interpretation of, 42–46

  Neolithic Revolution, 26–27, 71, 212

  Neopolis. See Naples

  neoteny, 28

  Nero, 88, 89, 93–96, 103, 108

  networks, 36

  New Cahokia, 252

  New Guinea, 148

  New Orleans, Louisiana, 257

  Nile, 86

  nixtamalization, 220

  Nocera, 88

  Nolan, Will, 232

  nomadism, 20, 25, 26–27, 67–68

  Nominanta, Calida, 135

  North Africa, 87, 105, 131

  Oaxaca, Mexico, 236

  objects

  identity and, 32–33

  ritual, 45–46, 207, 221 (see also specific objects)

  obsidian, 54, 56

  Ohio, 211, 250–51

  Ojibway Lake, 63, 64

  Omphale, Queen of Lydia, 95

  oral histories, 210, 250–51

  Osage, 209, 250–52

  Oscan-speakers, 138

  Ostia, 103, 135

  Özbal, Rana, 28–29, 53, 54

  Paelestra, 88

  pagodas, 198

  paintings, 37, 251, 270n7. See also wall art

  Paleolithic era, 20

  Paris World’s Fair, 184

  Parslow, Christopher, 90, 91

  Pauketat, Tim, 211–12, 213, 214, 217, 222, 223

  Pawłowska, Kamila, 43

  Penny, Dan, 194, 197

  performances, 215–16

  phallic imagery, 37–38

  Philippines, 148

  Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 4, 145–46, 196, 199, 201–2

  pigs, 27, 37

  pillars, stone, 35

  pits, 246, 247, 248. See also borrow pits

  borrow pits, 9, 208, 212, 225, 235, 242, 245–46, 248

  garbage pits, 221

  place

  identity and, 36, 74

  relationships with, 35

  selfhood and, 32–33

  plants, cultivation of, 27–28

  plastering, 51–52

  plazas, 207, 208–9, 213–14, 215, 224, 234

  Pleistocene, 156

  Pliny the Younger, 94, 128–29

  Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 217

  Poehler, Eric, 105, 108–12, 130

  political instability, 5, 147, 165, 259, 261

  Polkinghorn, Martin, 197

  Pol Pot, 200, 202

  Polynesia, 237

  Pompeii, 7, 12, 13, 78–79, 118, 120–22, 124, 150, 155, 209, 225, 257, 260, 261, 271n1

  abandonment of, 103, 125, 130–33

  African images and, 85

  brothels in, 118–19, 121

  class in, 270n7

  commerce in, 81–144, 209, 212, 213

  cooking in, 99, 101, 116, 175

  earthquake in, 81, 104

  Egypt and, 86

  erotica in, 117, 121

  excavation of, 81–82, 98, 99, 109

  Forum in, 95

  graffiti in, 120

  history of, 83

  houses in, 106

  immigrants and, 96

  kitchens in, 99

  languages in, 83

  liberti (freed slaves) and (see liberti (freed slaves))

  loss of, 124

  modern, 83

  North Africa and, 83–84

  paintings in, 270n7

  people leaving, 127–28

  public life in, 103–26

  Punic empire and, 86

  refugees from, 7–8, 133–37, 259, 260

  “retail revolution” in, 107

  riots in, 88, 89

  ruins of, 91

  sewers of, 122

  social classes in, 96–102, 105–8, 113

  spirituality in, 97, 169

  street life in, 81–144, 209, 212

  tabernas and, 104–5, 108

  theater in, 93–94, 96

  traffic in, 110–13

  visitors to, 129

  volcano in, 7, 81, 127–44, 258 (see also Vesuvius, Mount)

  women and, 92–93, 120

  Pompeiians, 137

  porridge, 220

  Portugal, 131

  pottery, 54, 168, 213, 215, 221, 223, 246, 247, 248, 249. See also specific objects and kinds of pottery

  Pottier, Christophe, 168

  Pou, Saveros, 172

  poverty, 259

  Poverty Point, 211
r />   power, 50

  of ancestors, 50

  symbolic, 30

  water and, 245–46

  wildness and, 31

  Pozzuoli, 81, 136–37

  Prasat Thom, 186

  Preah Khan, 180–81

  Preah Vihear, 200, 202

  pre-Angkorian villages, 156

  predators, 30

  prejudice, 62

  Priapus, 115, 117–18, 135

  privacy, 31–32

  private sphere, 32

  projectile points, 10, 52, 213, 215, 230, 231, 244, 247, 248

  public sphere, 32

  architecture and, 239–40

  in Cahokia, 253

  dissolution of, 257–58

  failure of, 68

  in Mississippian culture, 213–18

  in Pompeii, 103–26

  Punic empire, 86

  Purcell, Henry, 41

  Puteoli. See Pozzuoli

  pygmies, 83–87

  pyramids, 9, 33, 207, 208, 211, 228

  pyroclastic flows, 131

  Quadratilla, Ummidia, 94

  Ramayana, Khmer version of, 172

  Ramey pottery, 213, 223, 246, 247, 248, 249

  Rattlesnake Mound, 208, 216

  rebuilding, 260, 261

  recycling, 52–53, 224

  Red Horn, 244, 251

  Red Terrace, 74

  refugees, 7–8, 133–37, 135, 137, 259, 260

  rejuvenation, 257

  religious festivals, 215–16

  renewal, 215–16, 257

  resources. See also specific resources

  depletion of, 260

  lack of access to, 62

  wars over, 259

  revival, in Cahokia, 227–40

  ritual burning, 59–60, 246–47, 249

  ritual objects, 45–46, 207, 221. See also specific objects

  rituals, 215–16, 224–25, 243–48, 247. See also specific kinds of rituals

  in Angkor, 157, 159, 165, 170, 174, 180, 181, 190, 192

  in Cahokia, 224–25, 243–48

  fertility, 244, 245

  at home, 247

  public, 247

  ritual burning, 59–60, 246–47, 249

  ritual objects, 45–46, 221

  Roanhorse, Rebecca, 252, 253

  Roberts, Patrick, 148–50

  Roman culture, 85, 122–23

  portrayal of Egyptians, 86

  pre-Christian, 118

  Roman Empire, 7–8, 82, 86, 96, 100, 113, 124, 130, 155, 163

  Roman Republic, 92

  Rome, 83, 87, 112, 115, 124, 129–30, 134, 137–38. See also Roman Empire

  brothels in, 119

  Colosseum in, 131

  houses in, 85, 97

  patrician class of, 107

  roads and, 112, 136

  ruins in, 81–82

  toilet etiquette of, 122–25

  Rongea River, 186

  Sabinus, L. Vettius, 135

  sacrifice, 75, 215, 246, 247

  human, 216–17, 244–45

  St. Clair County, Illinois, 222–23

  St. Helens, Mount, 131–32

  St. Louis, Missouri, 9, 212, 254

  Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 217

  Sambor Prei Kuk, 151, 153–54

  Samnites, 83, 98

  Saña, Maria, 25

  Sanctuary of Venus, 103

  “sandcastle depreciation,” 195

  San Francisco, California, 255, 256–57

  Sanskrit, 172

  Santiago X, 252, 253

  Sarno Gate, 88

  Sassen, Saskia, 170

  Scale (West), 170

  Schmidt, Klaus, 34

  sea level rise, 63, 64

  “secondary burials,” 45

  selfhood, fixed location and, 32–33

  seminomadic peoples, 260

  Sen, 166

  settled life

  culture shock and, 33

  transition to, 20–40

  Severy-Hoven, Beth, 270n7

  sheep, 27

  sheep herding, 25

  shepherds, 54

  Shiva (Hindu god), 153–54

  “shovel scraping,” 232–33

  Siem Reap, Cambodia, 155–56, 199

  Siem Reap River, 162, 167, 192

  Singapore, 148

  Siouan culture, 219, 244

  Siouan tribes, 209, 250–54, 275n9

  Sioux, 251

  skulls, 45–46, 49, 57

  skyscrapers, 33

  slaves, 8, 100, 101–2, 113, 128. See also liberti (freed slaves)

  small-town life, return to, 260

  Smith, Monica, 71–72, 170

  snakes, 36

  social change, 66–71, 229, 234–35, 237

  social crises, 34–35, 58

  social hierarchy. See hierarchy

  social movements, 210, 249–50, 253

  social structure, 32–33, 66–71, 75, 242. See also class

  Social War with Rome, 83

  soil cores, 249

  Solomon, 85–86

  Solomon’s Judgment, 86

  South Asia, 149, 172

  Southeast Asia, 148–50, 157–58, 187

  Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts, 198–99

  Southern India, 166

  South Pacific Islands, 149

  Spain, 86, 131

  specialization, benefits of, 55, 58

  special-use structures, 229–30, 253–54

  spectacle, 215–17

  spirits, 49, 219, 220–21, 245, 251

  spirituality

  in Cahokia, 212–13, 222–23, 242

  “Mississippian” culture and, 222–23

  in Pompeii, 169

  Spring Lake Tract, 229–33, 236, 242, 246–47

  Spurius, 87

  Stabia, 90

  Stabian Gate, 84

  stable isotope analysis, 217–18, 243

  stages, 215–16

  The Stagger Inn, 222

  stamps, 36–40, 70–71

  Standing Rock Sioux tribe, protests against oil pipeline and, 253

  Stark, Miriam, 156, 158, 165–66, 175–76, 191, 197–98

  starvation, 64. See also food

  Stonehenge, 34

  stones, 35

  stratigraphy, 23–24, 25, 60

  streets, in Pompeii, 212

  Suetonius, 134

  suicide, 10–11

  Sulla, Lucius Cornelius, 83

  Sulpicii (family), 136–38

  supernovas, 217

  survival, climate and, 21

  survivance, indigenous cultures and, 252–53

  Suryavarman I, 1, 3, 166–67, 168, 170–71, 184, 187, 200

  Suryavarman II, 178, 180, 181, 187

  swales, 233–34

  symbolism, 36–40

  domestication and, 29

  identity and, 37–39

  symbolic landscapes, 35

  symbolic power, 30

  symbolic structures and, 29

  tabernas, 104–9

  Tainter, Joseph A., 72

  Tan, Noel Hidalgo, 198–99

  Ta Prohm, 145

  technologies, 33, 252

  cooking and, 53–54

  domesticity and, 51–58

  Neolithic, 27, 42

  temples, 151, 209. See also specific temples

  Teotihuacan, 239

  Terentius Neo, 117

  termite mounds, 153

  Thailand, 4, 166, 178, 193

  theater, 215–16

  Theravada Buddhism, 145, 198, 199

  therianthrope, 30

  “thermohaline circulation,” 63

  thunderheads, 253–54

  Tiro, 101

  Titus, 7, 130–31, 133–34, 136

  Tlaxcallan, 236, 239

  tobacco, 222

  tokens, 36–40

  Toltecs, 211

  tombs, 97

  Tonle Sap Lake, 146, 153, 154, 155–56, 157

  Tonle Sap River,
161, 162, 166–67, 194–95, 201

  tools, 52–53, 55, 75, 213, 215. See also specific kinds of tools

  Tornero, Carlos, 25

  trade, 26, 67, 71, 81–144, 209, 212, 213, 222–23, 252

  tradespeople, 55

  tragedies, 10–13

  travelogues, 4

  Tringham, Ruth, 41–42, 44–46, 57, 62–63, 66, 69

  Tuck, Stephen, 134–37

  Tunisia, 86

  Turkey, 5–6, 15–75, 95, 257

  Underworld, 245, 248, 254

  UNESCO, 228

  Upper World, 245, 246, 254

  urban design, 240. See also specific cities

  urban development, top-down, 259

  urbanism, 13

  agricultural complexity and, 73

  Çatalhöyük and, 40

  cultural enrichment and, 55–56

  farming and, 54–55

  humanity and, 13

  security and, 55

  urban life cycle, 210

  urban rejuvenation, 257

  Uruk, 72

  US Department of Defense, 64

  US Presidential Task Force on Immigration, 62

  Utica, 131

  Venus, 83, 134, 136

  Verhoeven, Marc, 30

  Vespasian, 131

  Vesuvius, Mount, 7, 81, 96, 102, 134, 258

  eruption of, 103, 127–39, 271n1

  pyroclastic flow, 129

  refugees from eruption of, 138

  Vettia Sabina, 135

  Vettii brothers, 121, 135, 137

  Via Consolare, 96–97, 99–100

  Via Consolare Project, 97–98

  Via dell’Abbondanza, 81–102, 104, 106–7, 111–12, 115, 118, 138

  Via Nocera, 110

  Via Stabia, 115

  Via Stabiana, 84, 87–88, 107, 111, 114–15

  Vicola di Giulia Felice (Julia Felix’s Alley), 89

  Vietnam, 4, 166, 189, 193

  villas, converted, 225

  Vishnu, 1–2, 153, 156, 159–60

  Vizenor, Gerald, 252–53

  Vulcan, 134, 136

  Wade, Lizzie, 236

  Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, 85–87, 99

  wall art, 56

  war, 258

  water

  transformative power of, 245–46

  water contamination, 13

  water infrastructure, 146, 159–60, 161–82, 189, 194–96

  Wat Phu, 186

  Watson Brake, 211

  Watts, Elizabeth, 227, 229–33, 246

  Weber, Karl Jakob, 90

  West, Geoffrey, 170

  West Baray reservoir, 1–3, 8, 160, 166–69, 178, 184–85, 187, 192

  West Mound, 20, 60, 62–63, 64, 65, 66–68, 74

  wheat, 54

  wilderness, 35

  wildfires, 64, 258

  willderness, 30

  Wilson, Peter J., 31

  Wingrow, David, 239

  Wink, Emma, 232

  Wisconsin, 213

  women

  in Çatalhöyük, 41–58

  domestic labor and, 51–58

  domestic technologies and, 51–58

  farming and, 222

  in Khmer Empire, 173

  Woodhenge, 208

  Woodland culture, 247, 248, 251

  Woolsey Fire, 258

  writing, 38

  X, Santiago. See Santiago X

 

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