The Archaeology of Household Activities

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures vii
• Tables ix
• Preface xiii
• Chapter One - Introduction 1
• Chapter Two - Formation Processes of House Floor Assemblages 19
• Note 26
• Chapter Three - Household Archaeology and Cultural Formation Processes: Examples from the Cerén Site, El Salvador 30
• Chapter Four 43
• Notes 54
• Chapter Five - Labels for Ladles: Interpreting the Material Culture of Roman Households 57
• Chapter Six - Mesoamerican House Lots and Archaeological Site Structure: Problems of Inference in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847 78
• Bibliography 95
• Chapter Seven - The Appetites of Households in Early Roman Britain 101
• Bibliography 117

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Figures vii
• Tables ix
• Preface xiii
• Chapter One - Introduction 1
• Chapter Two - Formation Processes of House Floor Assemblages 19
• Note 26
• Chapter Three - Household Archaeology and Cultural Formation Processes: Examples from the Cerén Site, El Salvador 30
• Chapter Four 43
• Notes 54
• Chapter Five - Labels for Ladles: Interpreting the Material Culture of Roman Households 57
• Chapter Six - Mesoamerican House Lots and Archaeological Site Structure: Problems of Inference in Yaxcaba, Yucatan, Mexico, 1750-1847 78
• Bibliography 95
• Chapter Seven - The Appetites of Households in Early Roman Britain 101
• Bibliography 117
• Chapter Eight - Towards a Feminist Archaeology of Households: Gender and Household Structure on the Australian Goldfields 121
• Bibliography 139
• Chapter Nine - Spatial and Behavioural Negotiation in Classical Athenian City Houses 142
• Chapter Ten - The World Their Household: Changing Meanings of the Domestic Sphere in the Nineteenth Century 162
• Chapter Eleven - Discussion: Comments from a Classicist 190
• Index 198