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Local Identities Editorial board: Prof. dr. E.M. Moormann Prof. dr.W.Roebroeks Prof. dr. N. Roymans Prof. dr. F.Theuws Other titles in the series: N. Roymans (ed.) From the Sword to the Plough Three Studies on the Earliest Romanisation of Northern Gaul ISBN 90 5356 237 0 T. Derks Gods,Temples and Ritual Practices The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul ISBN 90 5356 254 0 A.Verhoeven Middeleeuws gebruiksaardewerk in Nederland (8e – 13e eeuw) ISBN 90 5356 267 2 N. Roymans / F.Theuws (eds) Land and Ancestors Cultural Dynamics in the Urnfield Period and the Middle Ages in the Southern Netherlands ISBN 90 5356 278 8 J. Bazelmans By Weapons made Worthy Lords, Retainers and Their Relationship in Beowulf ISBN 90 5356 325 3 R. Corbey / W.Roebroeks (eds) Studying Human Origins Disciplinary History and Epistemology ISBN 90 5356 464 0 M. Diepeveen-Jansen People, Ideas and Goods New Perspectives on ‘Celtic barbarians’ in Western and Central Europe (500-250 BC) ISBN 90 5356 481 0 G. J. van Wijngaarden Use and Appreciation of Mycenean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600-1200 BC) The Significance of Context ISBN 90 5356 482 9 Local Identities - - This publication was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). This book meets the requirements of ISO 9706: 1994, Information and documentation – Paper for documents – Requirements for permanence. English corrected by Annette Visser,Wellington, New Zealand Cover illustration: Reconstructed Iron Age farmhouse, Prehistorisch Huis Eindhoven. Photo courtesy Ms A. Boonstra, Eindhoven. Cover design: Kok Korpershoek,Amsterdam Lay-out: Bert Brouwenstijn,Amsterdam Maps and figures: Fokke Gerritsen and Bert Brouwenstijn,Amsterdam ISBN 90 5356 588 4 NUR 682 © Amsterdam University Press,Amsterdam 2003 All rights reserved.Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of this book. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................IX .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................1 1.1 General theme and aims of research ...................................................................................................................................................................................1 1.2 Continuity and change in the archaeology of first millennium BC temperate Europe.............................................................2 1.3 Recent trends in landscape and settlement archaeology.....................................................................................................................................5 1.4 A long-term perspective and its implications............................................................................................................................................................11 1.5 Geographical and chronological framework...............................................................................................................................................................15 ‘ ’ ..........................................................................................................17 2.1 Aspects of geology and geomorphology .......................................................................................................................................................................17 2.2 The premodern landscape and its implications for archaeological research ....................................................................................19 2.3 A brief overview of investigations into the late prehistoric Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region ...............................................22 2.3.1 The period of heathland archaeology ....................................................................................................................................................................................23 2.3.2 The period of ‘essen’ archaeology.............................................................................................................................................................................................26 2.4 The Meuse-Demer-Scheldt region as a research area........................................................................................................................................29 ......................................................................................................................................................31 3.1 An anthropological perspective on houses and households...........................................................................................................................31 3.1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31 3.1.2 Houses and the socio-cosmological order...........................................................................................................................................................................33 3.1.3 The house as a social category....................................................................................................................................................................................................34 3.1.4 The temporality of domestic architecture...........................................................................................................................................................................35 3.1.5 The cultural biography of houses .............................................................................................................................................................................................37 3.1.6 House, farmyard, farmstead ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................38 3.2 Constructing house and household....................................................................................................................................................................................39 3.2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................39 3.2.2 Building the house: an overview of house construction types..............................................................................................................................39 3.2.3 Social considerations in the choice of farmstead location........................................................................................................................................56 3.2.4 Ritualised aspects of house construction .............................................................................................................................................................................63 3.3 Inhabiting the house.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................66 3.3.1 The use and ordering of space inside houses....................................................................................................................................................................66 3.3.2 The farmyard ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................70 3.3.3 Farmstead and household dynamics........................................................................................................................................................................................75 3.3.4 Depositional practices associated with the phase of habitation.............................................................................................................................79 3.4 Abandoning the house..................................................................................................................................................................................................................95 3.4.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................95 3.4.2 Abandonment practices ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................96

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