Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe : Sedentism, Architecture and Practice.

1. Verfasser: Hofmann, Daniela , ORC ID
Weitere Verfasser: Smyth, Jessica
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (406 pages).
Schriftenreihe: One world archaeology
ISBN: 9781461452898
Schlagworte:
Dwellings, Prehistoric > Europe.;Neolithic period.
Electronic books.
Parallelausgabe: Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe : Sedentism, Architecture and Practice (Print version:)
Online-Zugang: Available online
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction: Dwelling, Materials, Cosmology-Transforming Houses in the Neolithic
  • Materials
  • Practice and Dwelling
  • Cosmology and Worldview
  • Tradition and Change
  • References
  • Chapter-2
  • Houses and Households: A Near Eastern Perspective
  • Introduction
  • Architectural Developments During the Neolithic
  • Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
  • The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
  • The PNA
  • Discussion
  • What's There
  • What Made It Tick?
  • From the Outside
  • Different
  • Differences Between Profane and Ritual
  • Lifecycle
  • Function/Private and Public
  • Wrapping It Up
  • References
  • Chapter-3
  • Diversity, Uniformity and the Transformative Properties of the House in Neolithic Greece
  • Architecture, Sedentism and the Origins of Settled Life in Greece
  • Multiple Scales of Diversity and Their Meaning
  • Spatial Scales
  • Temporal Scales
  • The House as a Unifying Way of Life
  • Connections and Uniformities Across the Wider Social Landscape
  • The Socially Constructed Environment
  • The Circulation of People, Material, and Ideas
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 4
  • Embodied Houses: The Social and Symbolic Agency of Neolithic Architecture in the Republic of Macedonia
  • Neolithic Architecture in the Republic of Macedonia
  • Houses as Structures
  • Dwelling Within: The Inner Body of the House
  • Structures
  • Household
  • Rituals
  • Houses as Social and Symbolic Units
  • The Domestication of Death
  • Conclusion: House Embodiment
  • References
  • Chapter-5
  • Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia: Cucuteni Groups
  • Introduction
  • Materials
  • Practice
  • Meaning
  • Tradition and Change
  • Discussion and Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Chapter-6
  • Tracing the Beginning of Sedentary Life in the Carpathian Basin
  • Introduction.
  • Architecture of the Mid-6th Millennium in the Carpathian Basin
  • Mesolithic Prelude
  • Early Neolithic Antecedents (the Starčevo and Körös Cultures)
  • The Emergence of the Central European LBK House
  • Discussion
  • Transdanubia: The Cradle of the LBK Longhouse
  • Environmental Factors
  • Mental Factors
  • Closing Remarks
  • References
  • Chapter-7
  • Of Time and the House: The Early Neolithic Communities of the Paris Basin and Their Domestic Architecture
  • Introduction
  • Time and Domestic Architecture
  • Architecture and Time
  • The Lifecycle of the Early Neolithic Longhouse
  • Birth: Looking Forward
  • The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition
  • Building a Longhouse
  • Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (VSG) Longhouses
  • Living: Daily Routine
  • The Everyday House
  • The Yearly Cycle
  • Daily Life with Other Houses
  • Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (VSG) Daily Life
  • Death: Looking Back
  • Ending the House
  • The House in Memory
  • Changes Between the Rubané and Villeneuve-Saint-Germain (VSG)
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter-8
  • Change and Continuity in the Danubian Longhouses of Lowland Poland
  • Introduction
  • The House
  • Linearbandkeramik (LBK)
  • Brześć Kujawski Culture (BKC)
  • The House Within the Settlement
  • Linearbandkeramik (LBK)
  • Brześć Kujawski Culture (BKC)
  • Discussion-Comparison of Similarities and Differences
  • References
  • Chapter-9
  • Living By The Lake. Domestic Architecture in the Alpine Foreland
  • Introduction
  • The Lake Village House
  • Construction
  • Continuity and Impermanence
  • The Household
  • The Symbolic House
  • Village Communities?
  • Site Organisation
  • The Importance of Practice
  • Transmissions and Connections
  • Cultural Change
  • The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition
  • Conclusion: Change and Continuity From the DANUBIAN World
  • References
  • Chapter-10.
  • Home is When you Build it. Characteristicsof Building and Occupation in the Lower RhineArea Wetlands (5500-2500 cal bc)
  • Introduction
  • A View from the Longhouse
  • A Troublesome Template
  • The Lower Rhine Delta: from Hunting and Gatheringto Hunting, Gathering and Farming
  • Huts, Houses and Clusters of Posts
  • The Late Mesolithic (6450-4900 cal bc)
  • The Swifterbant Culture (5000-3400 cal bc)
  • The Hazendonk Group (3800-3400 cal bc)
  • The Vlaardingen Culture (3400-2500 cal bc)
  • A Delta Phenomenon?
  • Building and Rebuilding: Common Practicesand Structuring Principles
  • A Vernacular Tradition?
  • Practices of Repetition
  • Building and Rebuilding
  • Wood Use
  • Other Practices of Repetition
  • Discussion
  • Keeping Things in Place
  • Memory Maintenance
  • Performing Memory
  • Creating Persistent Places
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter-11
  • The End of the Longhouse
  • Introduction
  • The Shadow of the Linearbandkeramik (LBK)
  • The Disappearing Longhouse: VSG and Cerny
  • A New Tradition: Epi-Rössen, Chasséen and Michelsberg
  • Crossing the Water
  • References
  • Chapter-12
  • Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: A Matter of Circumstance and Context
  • Introduction
  • The Neolithisation of Britain and Ireland, and the Role of Large Houses in this Process
  • Subsequent Developments: 'Budding Off' and the Use of a Range of Habitation Structures
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter-13
  • Tides of Change? The House Through the Irish Neolithic
  • Introduction
  • The Nouvelle Vague
  • The Dating Revolution
  • Who Were These House Dwellers?
  • The House and Society
  • Things Fall Apart?
  • The Rise of the Tomb
  • The Grooved Ware influence
  • Tides of Change
  • References
  • Chapter-14
  • Lost and found: Houses in the Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia
  • Introduction
  • Finding Houses.
  • Huts and Houses During the Early Neolithic
  • Houses From the Later Funnel Beaker Culture
  • Houses for the Living-Monuments for the Dead
  • Continuity and Change-House and Farm in the Late Middle Neolithic
  • Houses and Hierarchies-Farms and Villages of the Late Neolithic
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter-15
  • From Diffusion to Structural Transformation: The Changing Roles of the Neolithic House in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe
  • Material Entanglements of Houses
  • The Occupants Of and Activities Within Houses
  • The Changing Roles of the House
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter-16
  • House, Household, Home
  • What is a House?
  • Interior Worlds
  • Out of Bounds
  • Home Time
  • Material Culture and Time
  • Time and Chronology: Context or Circumstance
  • Archaeological Architecture
  • References
  • Chapter-17
  • Transformations in the Art of Dwelling: Some Anthropological Reflections on Neolithic Houses
  • Archaeology and Social Theory
  • Reflections On Sedentism and Its Consequences
  • Social Memory and the Life and Death of Houses
  • Continuity and Competition
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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