Households and social change in Jutland, 500 BC–AD 200

From Huts to ‘The House’: The Shift in Perceiving Home Between the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Central Iberia (Spain)

“…The social correlate of these patterns of behaviour, both actual and symbolic, also contrasts clearly with the previous period if we argue for, as several authors propose (Brück 1999a, 160; Gerritsen 2007, 162–8; Webley 2007b, 458), a close interrelationship between inheritance systems and the degree of permanence (or otherwise) of the settlement. Thus, the technological innovations in the first millennium BC, the resultant population growth, and the defining permanence of settlement (sedentism) that all occur in the Early Iron Age would probably be accompanied by a change in the rules governing the ownership of the land, which would now become a property, whose rights were transmitted by inheritance (Ruiz‐Gálvez 1992).…”

“…The periodical reallocation of generalized tenurial rights would be consistent with a sense of place and time very far removed from Iron Age world‐views, but similar to comparable historical contexts like the British Early Bronze Age (Barrett 1994, 132–53; Brück 1999b, 68–70). There is, then, no reason to believe that the kinship groups, their domestic structures and their prerogatives over the land survived lifecycles of more than one generation (Webley 2007b, 457–8). The formation of households would follow a pattern of local relocation of residence; that is to say, each new family required the foundation of its own, differentiated home (Brück 1999a, 149–50).…”

“…Furthermore, the ‘home’ is the basic setting for the enculturation of individuals, through the learning of behavioural principles and of cosmological precepts alike (Blanton 1994, 8–20; Stevanović 1997, 335; Brück 1999a, 158–9; Tringham 2000). The household thus conditions the manner in which structures and institutions are formed, and is itself affected by wider processes of material change (Webley 2007b, 454).…”

Reconsidering egalitarianism for archaeological interpretation

“…There were no elite residences or central places (Köhler 1995). L. Webley (2007) has witnessed in Jutland a society based on the farmstead, which evolved from a single farm in open settlement to a more concentrated, yet isolated, community. The archaeological record reveals an increase in status and gender-based divisions within the household, but no sign of chiefs or warriors.…”

Settling with the norm?

“…This question relates to the way members of a household make decisions when producing pottery, constructing houses, or discarding objects that are no 24 E.g. : Beaudry (2015); Brück and Goodman (1999); Madella et al (2013); Souvatzi (2012);Trigham (1991Trigham ( , 2001; Webley (2007bWebley ( , 2008Webley ( , 2018; Wilk and Rathje (1982). longer wanted.…”