The ERC-funded project, CityLife, explores urbanization by integrating evidence from archaeology, history, and human skeletal remains, to reveal how generations of people overcame the challenges of city life and shaped the future of urban living.
An articulated approach to urbanization
CityLife takes an anthropocentric view on urbanization, shifting the focus from elite competition, and spotlighting the actual people.
Through the combination of
CityLife examines the biocultural aspects of urban development to reconstruct how populations, as modular parts of urban systems, have charted the long-term course toward urbanization.
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Paleopollution meeting (Polluted CityLife collaboration)
