The ebbs and flows of archaeological scholarship often see trends come and go, with big questions giving way to more fine-grained analysis only to, in turn, feed back into new, sweeping narratives. Thinking about the ancient city is no exception. Recent works from across the spectrum of archaeology and ancient history show a desire to draw new connections amongst urban sites in the same region, to explore similarities between regions, and even to interrogate the extent of similarity between settlements of drastically different periods and places.

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你如何解决城市这样的问题？

考古学的潮起潮落经常看到趋势来来去去，大问题让位于更细粒度的分析，反过来又反馈到新的、全面的叙述中。想到古城也不例外。来自考古学和古代历史领域的近期作品表明，希望在同一地区的城市遗址之间建立新的联系，探索地区之间的相似之处，甚至询问不同时期和地点的定居点之间的相似程度。