More than shelter from the storm : hunter-gatherer houses and the built environment / edited by Brian N. Andrews, Danielle A. Macdonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macdonald, Danielle A., editor.

Andrews, Brian N., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Environmental aspects--History.

Architecture.

Architecture and society--History.

Architecture and society.

Hunting and gathering societies--Dwellings--History.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, [2022]

Summary:

"Discussing case studies from the Pleistocene through Late Holocene periods, this volume offers a robust examination of houses as not only places of shelter but also of memory, history, and social cohesion within mobile cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mobile Homes and Persistent Places: An Introduction to Hunter-Gatherer Houses / Danielle A. Macdonald and Brian N. Andrews

The Origins of a Built Environment: Place-making and the Spatial Signatures of Neanderthals and Modern Humans / Amy E. Clark and Sarah Ranlett

Building a Lifespace on the Ridge, or, why build when there are caves? The Middle Magdalenian Site of Peyre Blanque France / Kathleen Sterling, Sebastien Lacombe, Margaret W. Conkey

A Space for Living and Dying: The Life-History of Kharaneh IV Structures / Danielle A. Macdonald and Lisa A. Maher

Stone Age Houses on the Northern Rim of Europe: Arctic Norway and Russia's Kola Peninsula / Bryan C. Hood, Knut Helskog, Vladimir Ya. Shumkin

High Altitude Residential Occupations in Mid-Latitude North and South America / Christopher Morgan and Gustavo Neme

Architecture and Human Behavior at a Folsom Period Residential Camp / Brooke M. Morgan and Brian N. Andrews

Architecture Anchors: The Built Environment of the Thule Inuit / Lauren E. Y. Norman and Kelly A. Eldridge

The Longhouses of the Maritime Archaic: Increasing Complexity or Regional Resistance / Christopher B. Wolff

The Attraction of Home: The Influence of Fire and Ambient Light on Domestic Space among the Dukha Reindeer Herders of Northern Mongolia / Matthew J. O'Brien, Todd A. Surovell, Randall Haas, Spencer Pelton

Epilogue: Breaking (stereotypes) and Making (a difference): Challenges to the "misplaced concreteness" of archaeological accounts of hunter-gatherer built environments / Margaret W. Conkey

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Andrews, Brian N. More Than Shelter from the Storm

ISBN:

0-8130-7018-X

OCLC:

1287752049