ABSTRACT
This chapter and the next chapter examine the changing architecture of houses and settlements. People rarely built substantial dwellings during the early centuries of the Bronze Age. Evidence of daily life survives as scatters of stone tools, clusters of pits, mounds of cracked and burnt stone and midden spreads dispersed around the landscape. From the seventeenth century, durable roundhouses were more common. Houses took on roles in the life of co-resident kin and the formation of kinship in settlements. Clusters of houses, fenced yards and gardens, ponds and waterholes attest to the longer-term inhabitation of settlements. Durable houses and settlements were a way of life, a way of kinwork and engendered deeper associations with places and land.
