NON-MEGALITHIC ”ARCHITECTURE” OF NEOLITHIC ON THE EUROPEAN TERRITORY: SETTLEMENTS AND BUILDINGS, ASSEMBLIES OF FORTIFICATIONS
NON-MEGALITHIC ”ARCHITECTURE” OF NEOLITHIC ON THE EUROPEAN TERRITORY: SETTLEMENTS AND BUILDINGS, ASSEMBLIES OF FORTIFICATIONS

Summary/Abstract: It is about Neolithic sites and buildings (houses) – in this article, we will return to a period which is previous to the birth of Architecture as an artistic field. As a geographic area, the European one is our target, having its specificity and also its similarities with the phenomenon that happened in the Asian territory of those times. We will see how the expansion of communities and especially the sedentariness of hunters-pickers will ask for the appearance of territorial organization, and also the habit of fortifying sites, and also the spring of a true science regarding building one’s dwelling house – the centre of activities and of the entire life of Neolithic man. Except for the megalithic monuments, what is specific to this period is also the bordering areas which closed settlements, having a ceremony role or a fortification role, while others had a funerary role.

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