The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

by Chris Fowler

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  CHAPTER 13

  DOMESTIC SPACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN*

  DEMETRA PAPACONSTANTINOU

  INTRODUCTION

  THE fragmented way in which archaeologists perceive cultural developments in the Mediterranean has been examined extensively in the literature, and over the past decades several attempts have been made to conceptualize the heterogeneity of the region in more holistic terms (Blake and Knapp 2005; Papadopoulos and Leventhal 2003). This fragmentation in research is even more obvious when focusing on a specific theme, as this involves breaking down the barriers of several discrete archaeological traditions and basically constructing a new field of enquiry (Papaconstantinou 2007). The aim of the present chapter is to familiarize the reader with the available evidence for domestic space in the Neolithic cultures of the Mediterranean from the middle of the seventh millennium and to explore, however briefly, the insights a wide-ranging perspective can offer.