A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece

Stella G. Souvatzi is Lecturer in Hellenic Civilization at the Hellenic Open University in Athens, Greece. A scholar of Neolithic Greece, she has conducted extensive fieldwork in Greece and has received support from the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. She has published widely on households, houses and communities in the British School at Athens Studies and in several edited collections.

• 1. The household in the social sciences; 2. The household as process in a social archaeology; 3. The Neolithic of Greece; 4. The ideal and the real: the examples of Early Neolithic Nea Nikomedeia and Middle Neolithic Sesklo; 5. Complexity is not only about hierarchy: Late Neolithic Dimini, a detailed case study in household organisation; 6. Homogeneity or diversity? Households as variable processes; 7. Evolution or contingency? Households as transitional processes; 8. Household and beyond: implications and prospects for social archaeology.

'This is a useful book that adds much to our current understandings of the household. It will be of interest to those studying the Neolithic and to those interested in the variable nature of housing and households more generally.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review