New paper out in @plosone.org with @dl-arch.bsky.social! We used Settlement Scaling Theory on c. 2,000 houses across 80 sites in SW Asia. Cities aren't just stacked houses: they're dense interacting networks, and we can measure when urban integration kicks in.
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The emergence of urban scaling in Ancient Southwest Asia
This study investigates the long-term emergence of settlement scaling in Ancient Southwest Asia by analysing house-size data from 1,852 buildings across 80 archaeological sites dating from the Late Ep...