Making Places In The Prehistoric World

This work explores the culturally-constructed nature of prehistoric settlement in terms of place, process and practice.

Posing critical questions, such as "how do we define and identify settlement units?", a team of contributors investigate issues such as the impact of gender and family constructs on the study of settlement in this period.Examining several areas of archaeological reserach, the contributors inter-link both people and landscape through the construction of biographies of place.

Case studies include: Mississippian and pueblo North America; neolithic and bronze age Britain; contemporary Southern Africa; and Joman Japan.