The House Next Door

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The attention devoted to households and houses in archaeology over the last few decades has brought with it a welcome emphasis on small-scale domestic practices and the rhythms of daily life. But houses are not only constructed and lived in – they are also abandoned and reused in various ways. I will focus on these latter aspects, drawing on recent excavations at the small, early Chalcolithic site of Monjukli Depe in southern Turkmenistan. The site is characterized by a dense sequence of domestic architecture that reveals remarkable similarities in plan and layout but also an array of abandonment and post-occupation uses of houses that speak to the practices of those still living "next door."

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23763