From the simplest hunter-gatherer society to the most powerful Empire, all societies are built on basic daily life, developed day to day with its specific material conditions. Household archaeology looks at the detail of the living domain, exploring the most essential elements of any social dynamic, the archaeology of the small scale. The Archaeology of Household looks at this important aspect of archaeological investigation in a variety of different ways using a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, deep thinking about the mathematical nature of household space, and how societies world view was reflected in domestic space. Case studies include hunter-gatherer societies in America, Neolithic and Bronze Age lakeside settlements in Switzerland and the Alpine region, Bronze Age sites in Hungary and northern Europe and Archaic period Sicily.
125 colour and b/w illustrations
Edited by:
Marco Madella,
Gabriella Kovacs,
Brigitta Kulcsarne-Berzsenyi,
Ivan Briz I Godino
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 242mm,
Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781789252125
ISBN 10: 1789252121
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 June 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contributors 1 The Archaeology of Household – An Introduction Ivan Briz i Godino and Marco Madella 2 The Mathematics of Domestic Spaces Juan A. Barceló and Alfredo Maximiano 3 The Integrity of Social Space: Hunters-Gatherers at the End of the World Ivan Briz i Godino, Débora Zurro, Myrian Álvarez and Assumpció Vila 4 Household Archaeology of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the North-west Coast of North America Gary Coupland 5 Domestic Space: Analysis of the Activities of a Hunter-Gatherer Social Unit at the Southern End of the American Continent Jordi Estévez Escalera and Ignacio Clemente Conte 6 Domestic Units, Definition and Multiform Archaeological Appearance. Economy and Politics in Unlike Domestic Prehistoric Groups of the Western Mediterranean Pedro V. Castro-Martínez, Nicolau Escanilla-Artigas, Trinidad Escoriza-Mateu, Joaquim Oltra-Puigdomènech and Diana Sarkis-Fernández 7 Archaeology of the Household. A Swiss Perspective Nina Künzler Wagner 8 Considerations about Possible Household Activities in the Neolithic Lakeside Settlement Arbon-Bleiche 3, Switzerland – a Preliminary Approach Thomas Doppler, Britta Pollmann and Brigitte Röder 9 Houses and Domestic Life in the Circum-Alpine Region Bronze Age Francesco Menotti and Urs Leuzinger 10 Locating Household Activities on a Bronze Age Tell Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Magdolna Vicze 11 Soil Micromorphology of the Household at Százhalombatta-Földvár Bronze Age Tell Settlement, Hungary Gabriella Kovács 12 House 1, Monte Polizzo, Sicily: from Excavation of a Ruin to Steps Towards an Interpretation of a Household Christopher Prescott and Christian Mühlenbock 13 Households in Context. Cosmology, Economy and Long-Term Change in the Bronze Age of Northern Europe Kristian Kristiansen 14 Endurance of the Household Constructional Systems in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) from the Protohistoric Period to the Middle Ages Rosario García Huerta, Francisco Javier Morales Hervás and David Rodríguez González
Reviews for The Archaeology of Household
this volume has some strong individual chapters--Leo Webley American Antiquity (10/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)
