Identification of Post-Marital Residence Patterns in Prehistory: A Case from the European Neolithic

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The aim of this contribution is to test hypotheses about the correlation of post-marital residence with several material patterns observed in the archaeological record, namely household floor area, the spatial arrangements of households and type of subsistence. These associations, which were previously revealed in the anthropological literature, are surprisingly strong and have already been used for interpretation of archaeological data, for example, for the pre-Hispanic Maya or the prehistoric Hohokam. The dataset used for our case study dates back to the Neolithic period (5500 – 4900 BC) in the European Temperate Zone (LBK). The method will be based on cross-cultural analysis, controlled for phylogenetic non-independence, that arises through patterns of shared common ancestry. The results will be then confronted with outcomes of other methods, such as genetic, linguistic and strontium isotope analyses.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23448