Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe

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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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

• Neolithic
• agriculture
• domestic architecture
• domestication
• sedentism

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)

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

  Daniela Hofmann

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

  Jessica Smyth

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