Early farmers’ house and household. Interpreting a Bayesian chronology for the Anatolian and Central European Neolithic

Summary

Anatolian and Central European Neolithic reveal some striking parallels in social developments. Different communal arrangements appear to be predominant in the Early Neolithic and autonomous household occupying discrete residences and performing most domestic activities in the house became clearly bonded entity only towards the end of this period and beyond.

Recently conducted Bayesian analysis of a large number of AMS radiocarbon dates from both areas allow the pace of changes of the domestic domain to be established in detail and prove to be fundamental to recognizing the very nature of the transformation from the communal to more individualized social arrangements. By directly referring to these results, the paper aims to present the minutiae of the social process in both regions. It also intends to discuss a number of significant implications of the Bayesian chronological modeling for understanding of different facets of the Neolithic including village microhistory and geography. This will be exemplified by the results of Bayesian modeling of the upper Late Neolithic strata at Çatalhöyük East and early Neolithic sites from the Polish part of the North European Plain.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
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