The Domestication Of Europe by Ian Hodder
Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies
This study argues that the Neolithic transformation in Europe involved the domestication of social life as much as crops and animals, with the household becoming a central organizing institution. Interpreting houses, enclosures, burials, and everyday objects, it shows how communities drew boundaries between wild and domestic, nature and culture, and living and ancestors, embedding control, identity, and property in the landscape. It challenges purely economic narratives, demonstrating how symbolic meanings and daily practice co-evolved to produce sedentism, territoriality, and new power relations across diverse regions.
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- 1990
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