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1 online resource |
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One world archaeology |
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One world archaeology (Springer (Firm))
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| Contents |
Introduction: Dwelling, Materials, Cosmology--Transforming Houses in the Neolithic / Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Smyth -- Houses and Households: a Near Eastern Perspective / A. Nigel Goring-Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen -- Diversity, Uniformity and the Transformative Properties of the House in Neolithic Greece / Stella Souvatzi -- Embodied Houses: the Social and Symbolic Agency of Neolithic Architecture in the Republic of Macedonia / Goce Naumov -- Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia--Cucuteni Groups / Natalia Burdo, Mikhail Videiko, John Chapman -- Tracing the Beginning of Sedentary Life in the Carpathian Basin / Eszter Bánffy -- Of Time and the House: The Early Neolithic Communities of the Paris Basin and Their Domestic Architecture / Penny Bickle -- Change and Continuity in the Danubian Longhouses of Lowland Poland / Joanna Pyzel -- Living by the Lake. Domestic Architecture in the Alpine Foreland / Daniela Hofmann -- Home is When you Build it. Characteristics of Building and Occupation in the Lower Rhine Area Wetlands (5500-2500 cal BC) / Luc Amkreutz -- The End of the Longhouse / Jonathan Last -- Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: a Matter of Circumstance and Context / Alison Sheridan -- Tides of Change? The House through the Irish Neolithic / Jessica Smyth -- Lost and Found: Houses in the Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia / Lars Larsson, Kristian Brink -- From Diffusion to Structural Transformation: the Changing Roles of the Neolithic House in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe / Ian Hodder -- House, Household, Home / Lesley McFadyen -- Transformations in the Art of Dwelling: some Anthropological Reflections on Neolithic Houses / Roxana Waterson |
| Summary |
The Neolithic period sees the transformation from hunter-gatherer societies to farming groups, practising agriculture, domestication and sedentism. This lifestyle spread gradually from the Near East into Europe, and archaeologists have long focused on observing the movements of plants, animals and people. However, the changes in domestic architecture of the time have not been examined from an explicitly comparative perspective. Tracking the Neolithic house in Europe: Sedentism, Architecture, and Practice explores the ways in which the transition to sedentism is played out in the earliest houses in the Near East and across Europe. Along with tracking sedentism, Neolithic houses also allow researchers to address changing cultural and group identity, and the varying social and cosmological significance of building. All these aspects alter considerably as one moves westwards and northwards across the European continent and as sedentism becomes more established in each region. Chapters are arranged geographically and chronologically to allow for easy comparisons between neighbouring areas. Contributors address:· Construction materials and architectural characteristics· How houses facilitated certain kinds of routine practice and dwelling· The cosmological dimensions of domestic architecture· The role of tradition and changeThree insightful discussion chapters--on the continent-wide development of Neolithic architecture over time, archaeological approaches to buildings, and anthropological perspectives--round off the volume. Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe: Sedentism, Architecture, and Practice is for archaeologists, anthropologists, and any student of the Neolithic |
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Social sciences |
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Anthropology |
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Archaeology |
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Dwellings, Prehistoric -- Europe
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Neolithic period.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Dwellings, Prehistoric
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Neolithic period
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hofmann, Daniela.
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Smyth, Jessica.
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| ISBN |
9781461452898 |
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1461452899 |
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