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DESCRIPTION:Anselm Hager (Humboldt University\, Berlin)\, “Settlement Struc
 ture and Social Cohesion”\, IAST General Seminar\, Toulouse: IAST\, May 20
 \, 2025\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 4  (first floor - TSE Building).\n
 \nWe study whether the architecture of early human settlements explains va
 riation in social cohesion. Our case study is the colonization of the Nort
 h German Plain in the 8th century\, which brought about two distinct villa
 ge types: circular villages and linear villages. We argue that circular vi
 llages foster social cohesion by increasing equality as well as visibility
  amongst residents. Using satellite images\, we confirm that round village
 s provide more public goods such as public benches and playgrounds. To tra
 ce the differences back in time\, we use data from home inscriptions and c
 onfirm that residents in more circular villages were historically more lik
 ely to inscribe words such as 'trust' and 'help' on their homes. An instru
 mental variable strategy exploiting variation in historic swampiness as a 
 predictor of village linearity makes a causal relationship plausible. Turn
 ing to mechanisms\, we find that circular villages foster neighbors' visib
 ility. Equality in resources\, by contrast\, is not more pronounced in cir
 cular villages.
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250520T123000
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LOCATION:Toulouse: IAST\, May 20\, 2025\, 11:30–12:30\, room Auditorium 4  
 (first floor - TSE Building)
SUMMARY:IAST General Seminar
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.iast.fr/seminars/2025-settlement-structure-and-soc
 ial-cohesion
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