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Home is When you Build it. Characteristics of Building and Occupation in the Lower Rhine Area Wetlands (5500–2500 cal BC)

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Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe

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Sedentism has long been regarded as one of the key elements of the Neolithic. The built environment—especially houses—and their societal connotations, most characteristically typified in Hodder’s (1990) concept of the ‘domus’, serve as its main antecedents. In the western part of the north European plain, the arrival of the LBK around 5300 cal bc does confirm this seemingly fixed pairing. Further north and west, in the wetlands and wet margins of the Lower Rhine Area (LRA), the situation is markedly different. Over approximately two millennia domesticates and cultigens become an increasingly regular component of the local economy and diet, yet houses do not follow suit. The little evidence available suggests the existence of rather diverse and relatively small structures, frequent phases of rebuilding and a continuation of mobility. This seemingly ‘unstructured’ vernacular character of house building points to long-term memory, practices of ‘citation’ and the creation of persistent places. It provides an interesting perspective on the meaning of home and its place in the Neolithic of this area and the way it interacts with the wetland landscape and environment.

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Amkreutz, L. (2013). Home is When you Build it. Characteristics of Building and Occupation in the Lower Rhine Area Wetlands (5500–2500 cal BC). In: Hofmann, D., Smyth, J. (eds) Tracking the Neolithic House in Europe. One World Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5289-8_10

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