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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
4 reviews
mandkips's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Slavery, Death, and Racism
Minor: Animal death, Suicide, and Drug use
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Death, and Grief
Minor: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual content, Alcohol, Suicide, Violence, Excrement, and Animal death
Descriptions of natural disasters and climate events. Mentions of human sacrifice.coreyarch9's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "It was the stone tool equivalent of a Korean taco, whose delightful existence is thanks entirely to a history of cultural mixing."
I don't know why I am into so many science-y books this year, but here I am, back with a review of yet another science-y book!
I loved Four Lost Cities. For me, a good book is one that teaches me something, makes me wonder, and holds my attention throughout. This book easily did all three!
I loved following Newitz along her adventures as she visited four archeological sites and learned about the various aspects of everyday, mundane life as well as the circumstances that led to those once-great cities becoming "lost."
"As always, the truth is weirder and more complicated than the legend."
My favorite location was Çatalhöyük, "a city built before cities existed." But the most fascinating lost city was one located right in my own country. I had no clue about Cahokia's existence! A city that, at the time, was bigger than Paris and provided a cultural epicenter for Indigenous Americans... and I had never learned about it! (Or at least, not memorably.)
Y'all, I learned so much that I tabbed the shit out of this book. I'm not usually one to annotate, I definitely am not one to write in my books, but this one calls for something, at the very least.
I don't know why I am into so many science-y books this year, but here I am, back with a review of yet another science-y book!
I loved Four Lost Cities. For me, a good book is one that teaches me something, makes me wonder, and holds my attention throughout. This book easily did all three!
I loved following Newitz along her adventures as she visited four archeological sites and learned about the various aspects of everyday, mundane life as well as the circumstances that led to those once-great cities becoming "lost."
"As always, the truth is weirder and more complicated than the legend."
My favorite location was Çatalhöyük, "a city built before cities existed." But the most fascinating lost city was one located right in my own country. I had no clue about Cahokia's existence! A city that, at the time, was bigger than Paris and provided a cultural epicenter for Indigenous Americans... and I had never learned about it! (Or at least, not memorably.)
Y'all, I learned so much that I tabbed the shit out of this book. I'm not usually one to annotate, I definitely am not one to write in my books, but this one calls for something, at the very least.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Slavery, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Suicide
kiandrareadsbooks's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
A wonderful text to achieve a global worldview of ancient urbanization that actively challenges colonial concepts and notions that tend to infantilize non-European ancient civilizations, making them out to be more primitive than they actually are
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide
In the introduction, the author mentions their fathers suicide briefly.
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