Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : themes for a critical archaeology of prehistoric settlement / Joanna Brück & Melissa Goodman -- 2. Settling on sites : constraining concepts / John Carman -- 3. All in the family : the impact of gender and family constructs on the study of prehistoric settlement / Mary F. Price -- 4. What's in a settlement? Domestic practice and residential mobility in Early Bronze Age southern England / Joanna Brück -- 5. 'These places have their moments' : thoughts on settlement practices in the British Neolithic / Joshua Pollard -- 6. What is a tell? Settlement in fifth millennium Bulgaria / Douglass W. Bailey -- 7. Houses and monuments : two aspects of settlements in Neolithic and Copper Age Sardinia / Christopher Hayden -- 8. Kinship, tradition and settlement pattern : an archaeology of prehistoric Middle Missouri community life / Richard A. Krause -- 9. Temporalities of prehistoric life : household development and community continuity / Melissa Goodman -- 10. Memory and pueblo space / Joseph J. Kovacik -- 11. The uses of ethnoarchaeology in settlement studies: the case of the Bamangwato and Basarwa of Serowe, Botswana / Kathryn Jane Fewster -- 12. Debating marginality : archaeologists on the edge? / Robert Young & Trevor Simmonds.

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