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Households and Hamlets of the Brześć Kujawski Group

Published:2022-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:8 Page:362-376
ISSN:2300-6560
Container-title:Open Archaeology
language:en
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Author:

Bogucki Peter¹,Grygiel Ryszard²

Affiliation:

1. School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University , Princeton , NJ 08544 , USA

2. ul. Południowa 9 – 11 , PL 95-083 Lutomiersk , Poland

Abstract

Abstract Over several decades, we have written extensively about the household as a fundamental organizational unit of the Neolithic society. Starting from our definition of the household cluster at Brześć Kujawski 3 and the detailed analysis of household activities at House 56 at Brześć Kujawski 4, we continue to consider the household as the locus of decision-making and resource allocation even as our thinking has evolved over the intervening years. At the same time, Neolithic households functioned within local concentrations of settlement in which they interacted with other such units. We characterize such local social entities as “hamlets,” adapting the definition used by the anthropologist Frank Cancian to refer to institutionalized alliances of domestic groups in which affiliation is demonstrated through residential proximity. We have studied two such hamlets of the Brześć Kujawski Group: the Osłonki-Miechowice-Konary hamlet and the Smętowo hamlet consisting of Brześć Kujawski and Pikutkowo. We characterize these hamlets to show how they extend our original conception of household-based societies to develop a robust understanding of local Neolithic communities.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Education,Archeology,Conservation

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2020-0216/pdf

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