Paper short abstract:

This paper aims to move within several different concepts and areas in order to study the prehistoric architecture of the 3rd Millennium BC

Paper long abstract:

This paper aims to explore the intersections across archaeology and anthropology, art and architecture, theory and practice and past and present, through the discussion of some key issues in the study of prehistoric architecture like: movement (the construction of space and places through movement, exploring: paths, entrances, liminal places, edges, frontiers, physical limits, walking or seeing); architectonic plans (permanence, fluidity, creativity, repetition); social bonds (in communities without writing what is the role of the elaboration of places?); collective identities (constructed through the construction?); gendered representations of places, and strategies of past visualization (can we see the past? Recording methods and scales of representation of space and time). By exploring the concept of dwelling (after Tim Ingold and Vítor Oliveira Jorge) in the study of prehistoric architecture, can anthropology and archaeology, as well as architecture and art, draw together their questions and scale of research, and deconstruct the traditional interpretation of a construction as a set of things based upon binary thought?