Different ways of using space: traces of domestic and ritual activities at a Late Neolithic settlement at Sormás-Török-földek

Abstract

The present paper studies questions of the use of space in various ways on the basis of data obtained from a site at Sormás-Török-földek. The significance of this site lies in the fact that two enclosures were excavated here which differ in character, but which are in a close relationship physically and chronologically. They demonstrate precisely the radical change, which took place in the mode of space-use, representing two important stages of the progression as a result of which the separation of territories used for domestic and ritual activities were physically manifested.

Keywords

• roundel
• Late Neolithic
• domestic
• ritual
• archaeo-astronomy