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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814587503321

Titolo

More than shelter from the storm : hunter-gatherer houses and the built environment / / edited by Brian N. Andrews, Danielle A. Macdonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

0-8130-7018-X

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages)

Classificazione

SOC003000SOC002010

Disciplina

392.36

Soggetti

Architecture - Environmental aspects - History

Architecture and society - History

Hunting and gathering societies - Dwellings - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Mobile Homes and Persistent Places: An Introduction to Hunter-Gatherer Houses / Danielle A. Macdonald and Brian N. Andrews -- The Origins of a Built Environment: Place-making and the Spatial Signatures of Neanderthals and Modern Humans / Amy E. Clark and Sarah Ranlett -- Building a Lifespace on the Ridge, or, why build when there are caves? The Middle Magdalenian Site of Peyre Blanque France / Kathleen Sterling, Sebastien Lacombe, Margaret W. Conkey -- A Space for Living and Dying: The Life-History of Kharaneh IV Structures / Danielle A. Macdonald and Lisa A. Maher -- Stone Age Houses on the Northern Rim of Europe: Arctic Norway and Russia's Kola Peninsula / Bryan C. Hood, Knut Helskog, Vladimir Ya. Shumkin -- High Altitude Residential Occupations in Mid-Latitude North and South America / Christopher Morgan and Gustavo Neme -- Architecture and Human Behavior at a Folsom Period Residential Camp / Brooke M. Morgan and Brian N. Andrews -- Architecture Anchors: The Built Environment of the Thule Inuit / Lauren E. Y. Norman and Kelly A. Eldridge -- The Longhouses of the Maritime Archaic: Increasing Complexity or Regional Resistance / Christopher B. Wolff -- The Attraction of Home: The Influence of Fire and Ambient Light on Domestic Space among the Dukha Reindeer Herders of Northern Mongolia / Matthew J. O'Brien, Todd A. Surovell,



Randall Haas, Spencer Pelton -- Epilogue: Breaking (stereotypes) and Making (a difference): Challenges to the "misplaced concreteness" of archaeological accounts of hunter-gatherer built environments / Margaret W. Conkey

Sommario/riassunto

"Discussing case studies from the Pleistocene through Late Holocene periods, this volume offers a robust examination of houses as not only places of shelter but also of memory, history, and social cohesion within mobile cultures"--