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> What qualifies whether any fixed permanent or semi-permanent settlement is actually a city, town, hamlet, or village is entirely subjective. nope

• hosh 2y ago
  I'm game. What is a city?
  • biorach 2y ago
    In the context of archaeology.... a good starting point would be https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344644569_Definitions_and_Comparisons_in_Urban_Archaeology https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344644569_Definitio... Yes, the dividing lines are blurry. No, it is not totally subjective
    • hosh 2y ago
      That's a lot of different kinds of definitions, some overlap, other disagree. Seems to me a similar problem with naming and categorizing -- whether it is something useful (as a framework for thinking through things), or for communication. They all create biases in how we see things, and it isn't as if it is something intrinsic to the known universe says, that is a city.