Notes on contributors ......................................... vii List of figures ................................................. x List of tables ................................................ xii Preface ...................................................... xiii 1 Introduction: themes for a critical archaeology of prehistoric settlement .......................................... 1 Joanna Brück & Melissa Goodman 2 Settling on sites: constraining concepts ....................... 20 John Carman 3 All in the family: the impact of gender and family constructs on the study of prehistoric settlement .............. 30 Mary F.Price 4 What's in a settlement? Domestic practice and residential mobility in Early Bronze Age southern England .................. 52 Joanna Brück 5 "These places have their moments": thoughts on settlement practices in the British Neolithic ............................. 76 Joshua Pollard 6 What is a tell? Settlement in fifth millennium Bulgaria ........ 94 Douglass W.Bailey 7 Houses and monuments: two aspects of settlements in Neolithic and Copper Age Sardinia ............................. 112 Christopher Hayden 8 Kinship, tradition and settlement pattern: an archaeology of prehistoric Middle Missouri community life ................. 129 Richard A.Krause 9 Temporalities of prehistoric life: household development and community continuity ...................................... 145 Melissa Goodman 10 Memory and pueblo space ....................................... 160 Joseph J.Kovacik 11 The uses of ethnoarchaeology in settlement studies: the case of the Bamangwato and Basarwa of Serowe, Botswana ........ 178 Kathryn Jane Fewster 12 Debating marginality: archaeologists on the edge? ............. 198 Robert Young & Trevor Simmonds Index ......................................................... 213