The lives of houses: duration, context and history at Neolithic Uivar

Drasovean, Florin, Schier, Wolfram, Bayliss, Alexandra, Gaydarska, Bisserka and Whittle, Alasdair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6811-8724 2017. The lives of houses: duration, context and history at Neolithic Uivar. European Journal of Archaeology 20 (4) , pp. 636-662. 10.1017/eaa.2017.37

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Abstract

There is a considerable mix of models for house durations in the literature on Neolithic Europe. This article presents a summary of a formal chronological model for the Neolithic tell of Uivar in western Romania. We provide estimates of house duration and relate houses to other features of the development of this tell, from the later sixth to the mid-fifth millennium cal bc. Three wider implications are discussed: that the house must be contextualized case by case; that house duration gives powerful insights into the sociality of community; and that houses, surprisingly often taken rather for granted in Neolithic archaeology, should be fully integrated into the interpretation of Neolithic histories. From what perspective, anthropocentric or relational, that may best be done, is open to question; while it may be helpful to think in this case in terms of the lives and vitality of houses, the ability of people to create and vary history should not be set aside lightly.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1461-9571
Funders:	ERC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 August 2017
Date of Acceptance:	23 February 2017
Last Modified:	10 Nov 2023 18:39
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/103277

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