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Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe

Sedentism, Architecture and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Daniela Hofmann

    1. , School of History, Archaeology,, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  2. Jessica Smyth

    1. , School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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  • Unique approach to studying the change in society in the Neolithice
  • Examines the issue on an international scale
  • Authors follow a prescribed set of themes to ensure comparison between chapters
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: One World Archaeology (WORLDARCH)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Dwelling, Materials, Cosmology—Transforming Houses in the Neolithic

    • Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Smyth
    Pages 1-17

  3. Houses and Households: a Near Eastern Perspective

    • A. Nigel Goring-Morris, Anna Belfer-Cohen
    Pages 19-44

  4. Diversity, Uniformity and the Transformative Properties of the House in Neolithic Greece

    • Stella Souvatzi
    Pages 45-64

  5. Embodied Houses: the Social and Symbolic Agency of Neolithic Architecture in the Republic of Macedonia

    • Goce Naumov
    Pages 65-94

  6. Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia—Cucuteni Groups

    • Natalia Burdo, Mikhail Videiko, John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska
    Pages 95-115

  7. Tracing the Beginning of Sedentary Life in the Carpathian Basin

    • Eszter Bánffy
    Pages 117-149

  8. Of Time and the House: the Early Neolithic Communities of the Paris Basin and Their Domestic Architecture

    • Penny Bickle
    Pages 151-181

  9. Change and Continuity in the Danubian Longhouses of Lowland Poland

    • Joanna Pyzel
    Pages 183-196

  10. Living by the Lake. Domestic Architecture in the Alpine Foreland

    • Daniela Hofmann
    Pages 197-227

  11. Home is When you Build it. Characteristics of Building and Occupation in the Lower Rhine Area Wetlands (5500–2500 cal BC)

    • Luc Amkreutz
    Pages 229-259

  12. The End of the Longhouse

    • Jonathan Last
    Pages 261-282

  13. Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: a Matter of Circumstance and Context

    • Alison Sheridan
    Pages 283-300

  14. Tides of Change? The House through the Irish Neolithic

    • Jessica Smyth
    Pages 301-327

  15. Lost and Found: Houses in the Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia

    • Lars Larsson, Kristian Brink
    Pages 329-347

  16. From Diffusion to Structural Transformation: the Changing Roles of the Neolithic House in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe

    • Ian Hodder
    Pages 349-362

  17. House, Household, Home

    • Lesley McFadyen
    Pages 363-372

  18. Transformations in the Art of Dwelling: some Anthropological Reflections on Neolithic Houses

    • Roxana Waterson
    Pages 373-396

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 397-406
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About this book

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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“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of History, Archaeology,, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Daniela Hofmann

  • , School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Jessica Smyth

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Sedentism, Architecture and Practice

  • Editors: Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Smyth

  • Series Title: One World Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5289-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5288-1Published: 07 December 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9557-5Published: 28 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5289-8Published: 09 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2625-8641

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-865X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 408

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology

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