Household, Space and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology: Theoretical and Practical Approaches

The aim of this study is to present the recent theoretical and practical aspects of household archeology, and spatial analysis methods in archaeology. In this respect, firstly, the concept of household archeology is defined, and its theoretical approaches are examined. After that, the current theoretical approaches to the common and different points of the concepts such as, “space”, “house”, “household”, “housing” in terms of space and spatial use were evaluated. This evaluation is followed by a general discussion of the theoretical and practical studies on the spatial analysis, which constitute the essence of this study. In addition, the methods used in the spatial analysis in archeology are widely introduced. Among the spatial analysis methods in archeology; ethnoarchaeological researches, space syntax analysis, the analysis of house floor assemblages (spatial distribution of house floor assemblages findings), microarchaeology and micromorphology, soil chemistry analysis, phytolite analysis are known to be applied. In the excavations attributed to the prehistoric period, the introduction of the methods used in the spatial analysis in the recent times has contributed to the understanding of the spatial uses of architectural remains in the context of the human-space relationship