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Title More than shelter from the storm : hunter-gatherer houses and the built environment / edited by Brian N. Andrews and Danielle A. Macdonald.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Mobile Homes and Persistent Places: An Introduction to Hunter-Gatherer Houses / Danielle A. Macdonald and Brian N. Andrews -- The Origins of a Built Environment: Place-making and the Spatial Signatures of Neanderthals and Modern Humans / Amy E. Clark and Sarah Ranlett -- Building a Life space on the Ridge, or, why build when there are caves? The Middle Magdalenian Site of Peyre Blanque France / Kathleen Sterling, Sebastien Lacombe, Margaret W. Conkey -- A Space for Living and Dying: The Life-History of Kharaneh IV Structures / Danielle A. Macdonald and Lisa A. Maher -- Stone Age Houses on the Northern Rim of Europe: Arctic Norway and Russia's Kola Peninsula / Bryan C. Hood, Knut Helskog, Vladimir Ya. Shumkin -- High Altitude Residential Occupations in Mid-Latitude North and South America / Christopher Morgan and Gustavo Neme -- Architecture and Human Behavior at a Folsom Period Residential Camp / Brooke M. Morgan and Brian N. Andrews -- Architecture Anchors: The Built Environment of the Thule Inuit / Lauren E. Y. Norman and Kelly A. Eldridge -- The Longhouses of the Maritime Archaic: Increasing Complexity or Regional Resistance / Christopher B. Wolff -- The Attraction of Home: The Influence of Fire and Ambient Light on Domestic Space among the Dukha Reindeer Herders of Northern Mongolia / Matthew J. O'Brien, Todd A. Surovell, Randall Haas, Spencer Pelton -- Epilogue: Breaking (stereotypes) and Making (a difference): Challenges to the "misplaced concreteness" of archaeological accounts of hunter-gatherer built environments / Margaret W. Conkey
Summary "Discussing case studies from the Pleistocene through Late Holocene periods, this volume offers a robust examination of houses as not only places of shelter but also of memory, history, and social cohesion within mobile cultures"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Hunting and gathering societies -- Dwellings -- History.
Architecture -- Environmental aspects -- History.
Architecture and society -- History.
Cave dwellers -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Architecture and society
Architecture -- Environmental aspects
Cave dwellers
Genre/Form History
Added Author Andrews, Brian N., editor.
Macdonald, Danielle A., editor.
Other Form: Print version: More than shelter from the storm Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2022 9780813069371 (DLC) 2021054878
ISBN 9780813070186 electronic book
081307018X electronic book
9780813069371 hardcover
0813069378 hardcover