ABSTRACT
The theme of ‘dwellings’ continues in this chapter, taking up the narrative from the fourteenth century BC. Tasks and technologies, such as pottery production, salt-making and metalworking, appeared more frequently in domestic assemblages, alongside evidence for the storage of fodder and grain, and more complex and performative practices of consumption. A series of new places appeared in landscapes: hilltop enclosures, ringworks and crannogs. They played varied roles in the formation of kinship. Large enclosures created landmarks on prominent hills and drew powerful places into social life. Enclosures, ringworks and islands were places where kinship was transformed during feasts and rituals.
