23. Heather Baker: Babylonian houses and housing

Many of us have spent a lot of time at home this year. What would that have been like in ancient Babylon? Heather talks about housing in the first millennium BC. What were houses like, who lived in them, and how did they use them? She discusses what houses meant to Babylonians, and how they were split and reconstituted by the family.  2:34 where was housing in the city?4:13 where did people want to live?6:42 did houses have kerb appeal?8:54 a typical house12:17 how rooms were used15:13 who lived in a typical house?18:09 keeping a family home22:04 what about water?26:01 how did you find where someone lived?https://www.nmc.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/heather-d-baker https://hcommons.org/members/apkallatu/ https://utoronto.academia.edu/HeatherDBaker   Music by Ruba Hillawi Website: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgw Email: [email protected] Twitter: @wedge_pod  Patreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod