ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how architecture brought different worlds into existence in the Neolithic. The first part of the chapter examines how we can conceptualise architecture as dynamic and emergent through a discussion of causewayed enclosures and an emphasis on affect, event and process. The second part of the chapter explores how architecture played a critical role in the creation and maintenance of community. Through a discussion of house societies, and the multiscalar nature of gatherings in this period, it becomes clear that architecture was a member, not merely an expression, of Neolithic communities. The final part of the chapter argues that the Neolithic saw the emergence of a very specific form of architectural power. This power which flowed through and around monuments was dependent not on monuments enduring character but rather on the manner in which monuments occur and re-occur, or happen again. These discussions led to the definition of three final neoconcepts and to the conclusion that architecture in the Neolithic formed a machine for world making.
