Article Title：Heterogenetic cities in premodern Southeast Asia
Abstract：
Archaeologists working in non-Western areas of the world tend to employ monothetic, unilinear definitions of 'urbanization'. The definition of what constitutes a 'city' in archaeological terms is also ambiguous. Most definitions are biased by dependence on early archaeological work in the Mediterranean and Southwest Asia. Models of city formation must be based on multi-linear, polythetic criteria, in order to accommodate non-Western phenomena. A polythetic functional definition of urbanization recognizes two distinct forms of the city: orthogenetic and heterogenetic. Literature on Southeast Asia has mainly concerned itself with orthogenetic sties. This article presents archaeological data on under-studied heterogenetic cities in insular Southeast Asia.
Keywords: urbanization; Southeast Asia; archaeology; Java; Sumatra; Singapore
DOI: 10.1080/004382400409916
Source：WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
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