One World Archaeology

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1 One World Archaeology Series Editors: Heather Burke, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia Gustavo Politis, Universidad Nacionaldel Centro, Buenos Aires, Argentina Gabriel Cooney, University College, Dublin, Ireland For further volumes:

2 Daniela Hofmann Jessica Smyth Editors Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe Sedentism, Architecture and Practice 1 3

3 Editors Daniela Hofmann School of History, Archaeology and Religion Cardiff University Cardiff United Kingdom Jessica Smyth School of Chemistry University of Bristol Bristol United Kingdom ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

4 Contents 1 Introduction: Dwelling, Materials, Cosmology Transforming Houses in the Neolithic... 1 Daniela Hofmann and Jessica Smyth 2 Houses and Households: a Near Eastern Perspective A. Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen 3 Diversity, Uniformity and the Transformative Properties of the House in Neolithic Greece Stella Souvatzi 4 Embodied Houses: the Social and Symbolic Agency of Neolithic Architecture in the Republic of Macedonia Goce Naumov 5 Houses in the Archaeology of the Tripillia Cucuteni Groups Natalia Burdo, Mikhail Videiko, John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska 6 Tracing the Beginning of Sedentary Life in the Carpathian Basin Eszter Bánffy 7 Of Time and the House: the Early Neolithic Communities of the Paris Basin and their Domestic Architecture Penny Bickle 8 Change and Continuity in the Danubian Longhouses of Lowland Poland Joanna Pyzel 9 Living by the Lake. Domestic Architecture in the Alpine Foreland Daniela Hofmann v

5 vi Contents 10 Home is When you Build it. Characteristics of Building and Occupation in the Lower Rhine Area Wetlands ( cal bc) Luc Amkreutz 11 The End of the Longhouse Jonathan Last 12 Early Neolithic Habitation Structures in Britain and Ireland: a Matter of Circumstance and Context Alison Sheridan 13 Tides of Change? The House through the Irish Neolithic Jessica Smyth 14 Lost and Found: Houses in the Neolithic of Southern Scandinavia Lars Larsson and Kristian Brink 15 From Diffusion to Structural Transformation: the Changing Roles of the Neolithic House in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe Ian Hodder 16 House, Household, Home Lesley McFadyen 17 Transformations in the Art of Dwelling: Some Anthropological Reflections on Neolithic Houses Roxana Waterson Index

6 Contributors L. Amkreutz National Museum of Antiquities, Papengracht 30, Postbus 11114, 2301 EC Leiden, The Netherlands E. Bánffy Institute of Archaeology, RCH, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház utca 30, 1014 Budapest, Hungary A. Belfer-Cohen Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel P. Bickle School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Road, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK K. Brink Sydsvensk Arkeologi AB, Box 134, Kristianstad, Sweden N. Burdo Institute of Archaeology, 12 Geroiv Stalingrada Ave, Kyiv-210, Ukraine J. Chapman Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK B. Gaydarska Department of Archaeology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK A. N. Goring-Morris Department of Prehistory, Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel vii

7 viii Contributors I. Hodder Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA D. Hofmann School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, Humanities Building, Colum Road, Cardiff, CF10 3EU, UK L. Larsson Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Lund, Box 117, Lund, Sweden J. Last English Heritage, Fort Cumberland, Eastney, Portsmouth, PO4 9LD, UK L. McFadyen Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, 28 Russell Square, WC18 5DQ, London, UK G. Naumov Institute for History of Art and Archaeology, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Kiro Krstevski Platnik 11-2/7, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia J. Pyzel Instytut Archeologii, Uniwersytet Gdański, ul. Bielańska 5, Gdańsk, Poland A. Sheridan National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, EH1 1JF Edinburgh, UK J. Smyth Organic Geochemistry Unit, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK [email protected] S. Souvatzi Hellenic Open University, 2 N. Plastira, Athens, Greece [email protected] M. Videiko Institute of Archaeology, 12 Geroiv Stalingrada Ave, Kyiv-210, Ukraine [email protected] R. Waterson Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, 11 Arts Link, Singapore, Rep. of Singapore [email protected]