Unique approach to studying the change in society in the Neolithice

Examines the issue on an international scale

Authors follow a prescribed set of themes to ensure comparison between chapters

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1. Introduction: Dwelling, materials, cosmology - transforming houses in the Neolithic Daniela Hofmann and Jessica Smyth.-2. Houses and households: Near Eastern perspective Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen.-3. Diversity, uniformity and the transformative properties of the house in Neolithic Greece Stella Souvatzi.-4. Embodied houses: the social and symbolic agency of Neolithic architecture in the Republic of Macedonia.-Goce Naumov.-5. Houses in the archaeology of the Tripillia - Cucuteni groups.-Natalia Burdo, Mikhail Videiko, John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska.-6. Tracing the beginning of sedentary life in the Carpathian Basin. The formation of the LBK house.-Eszter Bánffy
7. Of time and the house: the Early Neolithic communities of the Paris Basin and their domestic architecture Penny Bickle.-8. Change and continuity in the Danubian longhouses of lowland Poland Joanna Pyzel.-
9. Living by the lake. Domestic architecture in the Alpine foreland
Daniela Hofmann.-10. Home is when you build it. Characteristics of building and occupation in the Lower Rhine Area wetlands (5500-2500 cal BC)
Luc Amkreutz.-11. The end of the longhouse Jonathan Last.-12. Early Neolithic habitation structures in Britain and Ireland: a matter of circumstance and context.-Alison Sheridan
13. Tides of change? The house through the Irish Neolithic.-Jessica Smyth
14. Lost and found. Houses in the Neolithic of southern Scandinavia
Lars Larsson and Kristian Brink.-15. From diffusion to structural transformation: the changing roles of the Neolithic house in the Middle East, Turkey and Europe Ian Hodder.-16. House, household, home
Lesley McFadyen.-17. Transformations in the art of dwelling: some anthropological reflections on Neolithic houses Roxana Waterson.