Tracking the Neolithic house in Europe : sedentism, architecture and practice / Daniela Hofmann, Jessica Smyth, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofmann, Daniela.

Smyth, Jessica

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

One world archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period--Europe.

Neolithic period.

Dwellings, Prehistoric.

Europe.

Dwellings, Prehistoric--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples--Europe.

Prehistoric peoples.

Physical Description:

viii, 406 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2013]

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 and 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 and Bisserka Gaydarska

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 and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781461452881

1461452880

OCLC:

802321850

Publisher Number:

99952000560