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At Home in the Neolithic: Understanding Diversity in Neolithic Houses and Households

  • Penny Bickle , Ben Chan , Lech Czerniak , Joanna Pyzel and Christina Tsoraki
From the journal Open Archaeology

Abstract

In the Editorial for the special edition on Neolithic Housesholds, we introduce the history of house and household studies in European Neolithic Archaeology and outline the papers in this collection.

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Published Online: 2016-12-29

© 2016 Penny Bickle, et al.

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