Covering major theoretical and methodological developments over recent decades in areas like social institutions, settlement types, gender, status, and power, this book addresses the developing understanding of where and how people in the past created and used domestic space. It will be a useful synthesis for scholars and an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in archaeology and architecture.

1: Social Archaeology and the Study of Architecture; I: Initial Foundations: Theories and Methodologies in the Archaeology of Architecture; 2: Choice Locations: The Power and Meaning of (First) Place(s); 3: Reading the House: Populations, Proxemics, and the Syntax of Space; II: Scales of Architecture: From Mobile Home to Cityscape; 4: The Mobile Architecture of Hunter-Gatherers and Nomadic Pastoralists; 5: From First House to City Suburb; III: Houses as Vessels of Social Institutions; 6: House Societies and the Identification of Kinship, Family, and Marriage in the Architectural Record; 7: Household Archaeology and Architecture: Socioeconomy and Beyond; 8: The Gendered House; IV: Symbolism and the Built Environment; 9: Architecture and Power; 10: The Symbolic and the Sacred: The House and Beyond; Postscript Shingles on a Rooftop