Upscaling the Neolithic house.Trends in house size and function in Anatolia and the Balkans
This study dwells upon a dataset of 325 rectangular and sub-rectangular buildings from ten sites in Central and Western Anatolia to offer a discussion of house size in the Neolithic and contextualize unusually large buildings in Anatolia and the Balkans. The article highlights: (1) a marked increas...
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This study dwells upon a dataset of 325 rectangular and sub-rectangular buildings from ten sites in Central and Western Anatolia to offer a discussion of house size in the Neolithic and contextualize unusually large buildings in Anatolia and the Balkans. The article highlights: (1) a marked increase in residential floorspace from the 8th to the 6th millennium cal. BC; and (2) a tendency to scale up the house, without actually increasing the number of rooms. Further west than Cappadocia, not a single Neolithic building differed markedly in shape or elaboration from contemporary residential structures, and it is safe to assume that all were for domestic use only. A few outlier rooms from Nea Nikomedeia, Kovačevo and Sofia-Slatina (‘big house’) reached, however, dimensions of circa or slightly over 100 m². The paper addresses the function of these extra-large rooms: how did they fit into the residential landscape? Were they still used as domestic spaces? Parallels are drawn with an unusually large building at Çukuriçi Höyük, near Ephesus, to characterize a new category of Neolithic structures, referred to as ‘houses plus (+)’.
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbb40878615d4172997f443475fc18f02023-02-05T00:07:28ZengNational Archaeological Institute with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of SciencesStudia Praehistorica0204-98802815-26972021-12-011510.53250/stprae15.37-50Upscaling the Neolithic house.Trends in house size and function in Anatolia and the BalkansMaxime Brami0Palaeogenetics Group, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz This study dwells upon a dataset of 325 rectangular and sub-rectangular buildings from ten sites in Central and Western Anatolia to offer a discussion of house size in the Neolithic and contextualize unusually large buildings in Anatolia and the Balkans. The article highlights: (1) a marked increase in residential floorspace from the 8th to the 6th millennium cal. BC; and (2) a tendency to scale up the house, without actually increasing the number of rooms. Further west than Cappadocia, not a single Neolithic building differed markedly in shape or elaboration from contemporary residential structures, and it is safe to assume that all were for domestic use only. A few outlier rooms from Nea Nikomedeia, Kovačevo and Sofia-Slatina (‘big house’) reached, however, dimensions of circa or slightly over 100 m². The paper addresses the function of these extra-large rooms: how did they fit into the residential landscape? Were they still used as domestic spaces? Parallels are drawn with an unusually large building at Çukuriçi Höyük, near Ephesus, to characterize a new category of Neolithic structures, referred to as ‘houses plus (+)’. https://publications.naim.bg/index.php/stprae/article/view/146Neolithichouse sizepublic buildingspracticesAnatoliaBalkans |
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| title | Upscaling the Neolithic house.Trends in house size and function in Anatolia and the Balkans |
| title_full | Upscaling the Neolithic house.Trends in house size and function in Anatolia and the Balkans |
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| title_short | Upscaling the Neolithic house.Trends in house size and function in Anatolia and the Balkans |
| title_sort | upscaling the neolithic house trends in house size and function in anatolia and the balkans |
| topic | Neolithic house size public buildings practices Anatolia Balkans |
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