A Space for Living and Dying: The Life-History of Kharaneh IV Structures

Summary

This is an abstract from the "More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The built environment delineates space for daily actions and important moments. Separating the occupants from the external world, walls can create barriers between the outside or can build communities within them. Recent excavations of two structures at Kharaneh IV, an Epipalaeolithic site in Eastern Jordan, provides a window into the life-history of the community by reconstructing the life-history of the buildings. Kharaneh IV’s large size and dense artifact deposits indicate that it was a hunter-gatherer aggregation locale during occupation and a focal point for regional interaction. Situated at the edge of an extinct wetland, the inhabitants of Kharaneh IV used the structures for everyday actions and important rites of passage. In this presentation, we explore the life-history of the two structures, assessing changes in the use of space over time, to understand the changing lives of the people who aggregated at Kharaneh IV.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24979