ABSTRACT
This chapter contributes to agency studies focused on materiality as well. The field known as 'agency' in archaeology has allowed us to explore the decisions and subsequent actions undertaken by both individuals and social groups vis-a-vis results they intended to achieve through those actions. The agency framework has been employed in research on a variety of material culture types, including lithics production, mortuary ritual behavior, and, of course, technology in general. The study of architecture is the vehicle employed here to address individual decision-making processes in prehistoric contexts. The relationship between architecture and human behavior has been explored by a number of researchers in a variety of venues. Focusing on the architecture as an analytical tool allows us to get at individual agents, that is, the builders or at least those who commissioned the building of the structure, especially in a prehistoric village where builder and resident are likely the same.
