You might argue that "architecture" was invented in the neolithic, that what distinguished early farming communities was as much their built environment as new ways of organising and managing animal and plant species.
And building was just that - a process of construction and destruction, making and remaking.
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March 16, 2005
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doug bailey said on March 17, 2005 3:17 PM
the most striking thing for me, having spent 13 hours in a field in the smoke and fire on the edge of a terrace top overlooking a wide valley plain, was that the burning of these reconstructed neolithic houses connected not with the tradition and perhaps intended goals of an experimental pyro-domus-archaeology(e.g., what temperature? accelerants? how long? what records of remains?) but with the concentration of all of us in that field....talking, drinking, eating, filming, flirting, sitting, wondering, focusing...that was it...not the fire and its trace any reconstructed social or ceremonial neolithic ritual...rather it was about us watching and smelling, seeing, feeding the fire..nothing more and nothing less...unquantifiable in terms of critical temperatures or fire-paths...never at any conference have i had a similarly intense and continuous engagement with people...that must be the essence of these fires, modern and neolithic
Philip Dhingra said on March 17, 2005 8:48 PM
Great comment. I like what it conjures up in my mind: the image of our ancestors outside of obscure latin classification systems, and more just like us.
EwokDisko said on March 15, 2006 5:49 PM
Transfixed,
theres an arsonist in all of us