Hausinventare prähistorischer Siedlungen: methodische und quantitative Aspekte

Strata of burnt deposits can often be regarded as closed finds. They provide special insights into individual households. We visualize their multivariate attribute structure by Chernoff faces. Additionally we quantify mass, locations, production and use of the pottery assemblages of our Neolithic and Bronze Age samples. Among our features we observe high quantitative as well as qualitative intra-site diversity in relation to houses. For every find category added, patterns get even more diverse. Detailed mapping and spatial analysis of find distributions in relation to the archaeological features present are an important first step towards more sophisticated interpretations of the organization of households and settlement communities. It also allows criticising concepts of archaeological culture.