Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Springer, [2013], ©2013.

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Additional Authors

• Hofmann, Daniela.
• Smyth, Jessica.

Description

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

Series Statement

One world archaeology

Uniform Title

One world archaeology (Springer (Firm))

Subject

• Neolithic period > Europe
• Dwellings, Prehistoric > Europe
• Prehistoric peoples > Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781461452881
• 1461452880

OCLC

• ocn802321850
• SCSB-5676635

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries