Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe
Sedentism, Architecture and Practice
Published on 7. December 2012
Book
Hardback
VIII, 408 pages
978-1-4614-5288-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Neolithic period is noted primarily for the change from hunter-gatherer societies to agriculture, domestication and sedentism. This change has been studied in the past by archaeologists observing the movements of plants, animals and people. But has not been examined by looking at the domestic architecture of the time. Along with tracking the movement of sedentism, Neolithic houses are also able to show researchers the beginnings of cultural identity, group representation through the construction and decoration of these structures. Additionally as agriculture moved west and north in this era, the architecture and material culture shows this change and its significance. Chapters are arranged chronologically so that authors can address differences and similarities of their region to neighboring ones. To ensure continuity, authors have framed the chapters around the following considerations: construction materials and architectural characteristics; how houses facilitated or perpetua
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From the book reviews:
"This is an excellent volume that will be of considerable use to anyone studying the European Neolithic. It is a useful first port of call for students and researchers finding their way into the relevant literature and key sites within a particular region, and it also offers an overview, both in the thematic papers and in the sum of the regional case histories, of the entire phenomenon across Europe." (Mike Parker Pearson, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 70, 2014)
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Edition
2013 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Graduate
Illustrations
VIII, 408 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
787 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4614-5288-1 (9781461452881)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4614-5289-8
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Daniela Hofmann | Jessica Smyth
Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe
Sedentism, Architecture and Practice
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10/2014
Springer
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Content
1. Introduction: Dwelling, materials, cosmology - transforming houses in the Neolithic Daniela Hofmann and Jessica Smyth.-2. Houses and households: Near Eastern perspective Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen.-3. Diversity, uniformity and the transformative properties of the house in Neolithic Greece Stella Souvatzi.-4. Embodied houses: the social and symbolic agency of Neolithic architecture in the Republic of Macedonia.-Goce Naumov.-5. Houses in the archaeology of the Tripillia - Cucuteni groups.-Natalia Burdo, Mikhail Videiko, John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska.-6. Tracing the beginning of sedentary life in the Carpathian Basin. The formation of the LBK house.-Eszter Bánffy
7. Of time and the house: the Early Neolithic communities of the Paris Basin and their domestic architecture Penny Bickle.-8. Change and continuity in the Danubian longhouses of lowland Poland Joanna Pyzel.-
9. Living by the lake. Domestic architecture in the Alpine foreland
Daniela Hofmann.-10. Home is when you build it. Characteristics of building and occupation in the Lower Rhine Area wetlands (5500-2500 cal BC)
Luc Amkreutz.-11. The end of the longhouse Jonathan Last.-12. Early Neolithic habitation structures in Britain and Ireland: a matter of circumstance and context.-Alison Sheridan
13. Tides of change? The house through the Irish Neolithic.-Jessica Smyth
14. Lost and found. Houses in the Neolithic of southern Scandinavia
Lars Larsson and Kristian Brink.-15. From diffusion to structural transformation: the changing roles of the Neolithic house in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe Ian Hodder.-16. House, household, home
Lesley McFadyen.-17. Transformations in the art of dwelling: some anthropological reflections on Neolithic houses Roxana Waterson.