Let the Sunshine In: The Issue of Neolithic Longhouse Orientation

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.11" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.11</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.11" target="_blank" >10.1017/eaa.2018.11</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Let the Sunshine In: The Issue of Neolithic Longhouse Orientation
Original language description
This article is focused on the deliberate orientation of longhouses observed within the wide area of the Linear Pottery culture (LBK) and succeeding cultures (post-LBK). Spatial analysis is based on the assemblage of 1546 buildings, whose purpose it was to attempt to cover the whole area of longhouse distribution. Despite variability, which considerably increased over time, the alignment of house entrances towards the south or south-east was observed. The widely accepted theory of house alignment towards the ‘ancestral homeland’ is therefore challenged by a new hypothesis, which sees orientation governed by the celestial path of the sun. Using 3D-modelling of light-and-shadow and solar impact, sun alignment is discussed as an integral element of the longhouse concept already present by the time of its genesis. The tendency of aligning longhouse entrances towards the east, which emerged during the LBK expansion westwards, is considered to be a regionally limited pattern, as no analogical shift was observed in the eastern areas of longhouse distribution.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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