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World-systems of nomads
The rise of sedentism:
Settlement systems:
Adding tiers to
a settlement system:
Settlement size distributions
Flat and Steep Size Distributions
The limits of settlement size:
Resource availability in a local space,
population density,
technologies of communication and politics,
shielding individuals – the emergence of privacy.
High-density and low-density settlements
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