Full Description
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.
Contents
1. The Archaeology of Household - An Introduction(Ivan Briz i Godino and Marco Madella) 2. The Mathematics of Domestic Spaces(Juan A. Barcelo and Alfredo Maximiano)3. The Integrity of Social Space: Hunters-Gatherers at the End of the World(Ivan Briz i Godino, Debora Zurro, Myrian Alvarez and Assumpcio Vila)4. Household Archaeology of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Northwest 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 Estevez 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 Martinez, Nicolau Escanilla Artigas, Trinidad Escoriza Mateu, Joaquim Oltra i Puigdomenech and Tamer Sarkis Fernandez)7. Archaeology of the Household. A Swiss Perspective(Nina Kunzler 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 Roeder)9. Houses and Domestic Life in the Alpine Region Bronze Age Lacustrine Communities(Francesco Menotti and Urs Leuzinger)10. Locating Household Activities on a Bronze Age Tell(Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and Magdolna Vicze)11. Soil Micromorphology of the Household at Szazhalombatta-Foeldvar Bronze Age Tell Settlement, Hungary(Gabriella Kovacs)12. House 1, Monte Polizzo, Sicily: from Excavation of a Ruin to Steps towards an Interpretation of a Household.(Christopher Prescott and Christian Muhlenbock)13. Households in Context. Cosmology, Economy and Long-Term Change in the Bronze Age of Northern Europe(Kristian Kristiansen)14. Endurance of the Constructional Systems in Households in Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) from the Protohistoric Period to the Middle Ages(Rosario Garcia Huerta, Francisco Javier Morales Hervas and David Rodriguez Gonzalez)
