Urban Scaling and Social Complexity

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Urban Scaling and Social Complexity

Recent research suggests the processes which lead to allometric scaling in contemporary cities have been part of human societies all along. In this talk I illustrate a variety of manifestations of these processes in the archaeological record and discuss the implications of these findings for theories of social complexity.