The archaeology of household activities /
edited by Penelope M. Allison.
- xi, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formation processes of house floor assemblages / Vincent M. LaMotta, Michael B. Schiffer -- Household archaeology and cultural formation processes: examples from the Cerén site, El Salvador / Brian R. McKee -- Digging houses: archaeologies of Classical and Hellenistic Greek domestic assemblages / Bradley A. Ault, Lisa C. Nevett -- Labels for ladles: interpreting the material culture of Roman households / Penelope M. Allison -- Mesoamerican house lots and archaeological site structure: problems of inference in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847 / Rani T. Alexander -- The appetites of households in early Roman Britain / Karen Meadows -- Towards a feminist archaeology of households: gender and household structure on the Australian goldfields / Susan Lawrence -- Spatial and behavioural negotiation in Classical Athenian city houses / Marilyn Y. Goldberg -- The world their household: changing meanings of the domestic sphere in the nineteenth century / Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood -- Discussion: comments from a classicist Eleanor Leach.
"Household archaeology has traditionally relied on architectural remains to investigate the role of households in the wider community, often ignoring the information that smaller artifacts can provide about the individuality of household members and the complexity of domestic relationships. Arguing for a closer, multidisciplinary examination of all the evidence at hand, Archaeology of Household Activities brings together recent archaeological research on domestic dwellings in pre-Roman Britain, Classic Mayan civilization, Greek and Roman cultures, and colonial Australia and the Americas. Using artifact-based approaches to explore the spatial, gender and status organization of household activities, the contributors provide a more holistic view of the dynamics of domestic life in communities of the past. Contributors: Rani Alexander, Penelope Allison, Bradley Ault, Marilyn Goldberg, Vincent LaMotta, Susan Lawrence, Eleanor Leach, Brian McKee, Karen Meadows, Lisa Nevett, Michael Brian Schiffer, andSuzanne Spencer-Wood."--Publisher description.