ABSTRACT
Following the interpretive turn in the 1980s archaeologists have increasingly found inspiration in the phenomenological philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The historian of archaeology Bruce Trigger has identified a strain in post-processual archaeology that draws significantly on the phenomenological tradition. This strain in contemporary theory has been dubbed intuitive, constructivist and humanist archaeology and it places emphasis on the nature of human experience in archaeological enquiry. 'Dwelling' was first brought into the archaeological and anthropological literature by social anthropologist Tim Ingold in two papers in 1993. The dwelling perspective, as it has been developed by archaeologists, stresses the 'full sensuous experience of living in the world' that occurs in human existence and this perspective originates in Heidegger's philosophy. The anthropological dimension of processual archaeology is evident from its concern with the reconstruction of past social realities. From this point of view society was taken to be composed of sets of patterned behaviours that included the production of material culture.
