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Neighbours: Negotiating space in a prehistoric village

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Frankel  and
Jennifer M. Webb
David Frankel*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia
Jennifer M. Webb*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Program, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia
*
1(Email: d.frankel@latrobe.edu.au)
2(Email: jenny.webb@latrobe.edu.au)
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This paper shows the remarkable level of social history that can be drawn from the high quality excavation and analysis of a well-preserved stratigraphic sequence. A Bronze Age settlement in Cyprus could be defined as a series of households, comprising dwellings, outbuildings and courtyards that were established, extended, replaced or abandoned over some 500 years. The authors' interpretation offers intimate access to the private lives of the inhabitants over a period in which their settlement grew from a village to a town and then reverted to a deserted ruin.

Keywords

household archaeologysocial archaeologyspatial archaeologyBronze AgeCyprusprehistory
Type
Research
Information
Antiquity , Volume 80 , Issue 308 , 1 June 2006 , pp. 287 - 302
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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