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Exploring commensality, household and solidarity. Evidence of a medium-scale community gathering place in Neolithic Kleitos 1, north-western Greece.
- Source :
- Journal of Material Culture; Dec2021, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p403-432, 30p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper describes the cooking installations found inside a specific building, Building C, in the Late Neolithic site of Kleitos 1, their morphological and functional diversification, how they changed and evolved throughout time, and their spatial arrangements. Building C provided the stratigraphic information required by the authors to discern two distinct chronological phases, during which a significant change took place in the characteristics and organisation of the cooking facilities in the building. Building C underwent a transformation from a household unit during phase A to a medium-scale gathering place, capable of hosting a certain number of people, in Phase B. The identification of Building C as a medium-scale gathering place is based on the quantity and quality of its cooking facilities in comparison both to findings in other buildings on the site and to two well-explored Neolithic contexts of large-scale gatherings in Northern Greece, Makriyialos and Promachon-Topolniča. This is the first time a medium-scale gathering place has been recorded in Neolithic Greece. The aim of this paper is to highlight the importance of multi-scalar gatherings and the broader variability witnessed in social dynamics and site organisation in the Late Neolithic period of Northern Greece (late 6th to early 5th millennium cal BC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13591835
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Material Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153893715
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835211042496