Introduction: Dotmesticity expressed

Home and family are central to the human experience. We know little about the origins of this basic social organization for humans and the development of what we know today as domesticity. Domesticity has a very long past but archaeological evidence is missing for most of the millennia. Archaeological levels in caves represent such complex palimpsests that they cannot be used to reconstruct the spatial aspect of social life. The few huts in the Ukrainian plain during the late Middle Palaeolithic, the Pavlovian mammoth "dwellings" in the Ukrainian plain and in Moravia during the Early Upper Palaeolithic, repeatedly reoccupied, do not let us understand how domestic life was organized.