Place, house, person

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1478-2294|6|2|104-107

ISSN: 1380-2038

Source: Archaeological Dialogues, Vol.6, Iss.2, 1999-12, pp. : 104-107

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Abstract

This is an interesting and important paper that argues in a reasoned and convincing manner for a new approach to an archaeology of houses. It uses as an archaeological case study the evidence from the southern Netherlands but the approach presented here has a much wider application and the results are directly relevant to a very large area of northern Europe. I originally heard this paper delivered as a lecture at a conference on settlement studies where it came amid a succession of papers debating detailed structural typologies of Iron Age long houses and others providing increasingly detailed scientific analysis of cattle byres. I had already made one abortive attempt to suggest there was a more interesting way of thinking about houses but this was most clearly demonstrated by the paper presented here.