Prehistoric Longhouses
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I midten af ældre bronzealder var bebyggelsen vest for ungmorænen i det sydlige Jylland karakteriseret af robuste treskibede langhuse. Indenfor de senere år er der i Vejen kommune undersøgt en række lokaliteter med bebyggelseslevn fra... more
This paper discusses a variant of the Bronze Age's three-aisled post-built long house: buildings with a trapezoid roof-supporting structure. These structures often have their widest-set pair of posts to the west and are narrower to the... more
El yacimiento de Las Lunas ha estado a punto de ser destruido por un equipo arqueológico escasamente formado que no fue capaz de detectar los restos del primer asentamiento en el lugar, y sólo una feliz circunstancia ha hecho que puedan... more
The here presented PhD project explores the phenomenon of cereal cultivation during the Iron Age (c. 500 BC – AD 1100) in southern Scandinavia. The main body of the thesis consists of four articles. These were written with the aim to... more
Az elmúlt tíz évben számos, korábban ismeretlen, nagy kiterjedésű középső neolitikus lelőhely látott napvilágot a mai Baranya megye területén. A közelmúltban több ilyen, a Kr. e. 6. évezred második felére keltezhető település komplex... more
A better understanding of the role of domestic dwellings in shaping past social relations is needed. Here, Northern Iroquoian longhouses are studied as sociotechnical systems, following Pfaffenberger (1992). This approach allows us to... more
In the area around Roskilde Fjord on Zealand, 20 two-aisled house sites have so far been identified, which date from the Early Neolithic until the Early Bronze Age. On the basis of ceramic finds, the Early Neolithic houses can mainly be... more
This paper is a preliminary report on the recent discovery of the FBC longhouses at Líbeznice in Central Bohemia. The rescue excavation, carried out during motorway bypass construction produced evidence of more than ten ground plans... more
Blog article about the site I was in charge of at Ørland Main Air Station, Norway during the summer of 2015. Published in the archaeological weblog Norark.no, http://norark.no/undersokelse/vei-lag-og-hus-i-nord-pa-orland-kampflybase. The... more
The present work aims to partial assessment excavation of Neolithic settlement site located on cadastres of former villages Hrdlovka-Liptice. With regard to the amount of material obtained through excavation and exposed situation, the... more
Presentamos ahora un yacimiento excepcional, el de Las Camas (en el madrileño barrio de Villaverde Bajo, antiguo camino a Perales del Río), descubierto en el año 2004 en el curso de una intervención arqueológica preventiva asociada al... more
An attempt at relating Bronze Age rectangular dwellings to the familial structure is not that challenging any more in Korean archaeology, and has contributed for better understanding on social organization of Bronze Age. However, some... more
This article is focused on the deliberate orientation of longhouses observed within the wide area of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) and succeeding cultures (post-LBK). Spatial analysis is based on the assemblage of 1546 buildings, whose... more
Der Beginn des Mittelneolithikums ist nach südwestdeutscher Lesart mit dem Aufkommen der Stichbandkeramik verknüpft, während in Mitteldeutschland diese Wandlung forschungsgeschichtlich bedingt an das Ende des Früh- oder Altneolithikums... more
Fjordbotnene på Helgeland er lite arkeologisk utforsket. Gardsnavn og arkeologiske funn viser imidlertid at det fantes en jordbruksbosetting her i jernalderen. På Myrmoen av Holand i Drevjabukta utførte NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet en utgraving... more
The emergence of the Neolithic introduced one of the most fundamental turning points in the history of humankind. People left this imaginary Eden of symbiosis with animal species to start their new role of stewards and destroyers of the... more
Review of a series of four children's books on North American indigenous groups by Bobbie Kalman. With illustrations by Barbara Bedell, Margaret Amy Reich, and Bonna Rouse. The four books, all excellent for children, are Nations of the... more
Das Langhaus ist zweifelsohne eines der charakteristischsten Merkmale bandkeramischer Kultur. Welche Bedeutung hatte „das Haus“ in den bandkeramischen Gesellschaften? Gerade in der Theorie- und Modellbildung zu Siedlungsstruktur und... more
Fjordbotnene på Helgeland er lite arkeologisk utforsket. Gardsnavn og arkeologiske funn viser imidlertid at det fantes en jordbruksbosetting her i jernalderen. På Myrmoen av Holand i Drevjabukta utførte NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet en utgraving... more
Løken, T. 1990. Forsand in Rogaland - A local Centre in the southern Fiords of Ryfylke. Gunneria 64: 207-221. A short description is given of the excavations at Forsandmoen and what they are able to tell us about the size and location of... more
The use of house types and typologies has played a central role in settlement archaeology in South Scandinavia since the earliest finds of longhouses, but the methods, use and concepts of the approach are rarely discussed within the... more
Altaic part of unetymologized Germanic words represents basic lexicon without cultural words (but including several social terms), i. e. it’s namely substrate
During the E6 project Gudbrandsdalen, nine agricultural sites and three Iron Age farmsteads were excavated in Fron. The sites were located in the lower part of the valley, in an area prone to flooding from the river Lågen and landslides... more