This paper presents a study of outdoor settlement spaces through the interdisciplinary analysis of combustion structures as key elements. It explores the use of outdoor public spaces and their complexity, multifunctionality, and dynamic contribution to the formation of Neolithic societies. The study focuses on two designated and adjacent outdoor spaces at the Late Neolithic settlement Kleitos 1 in Kozani (north-west Greece). The selected venues indicate everyday domestic and possibly craft practices that may have fostered shared cooking events and culinary traditions. The main objective of the paper is to employ an integrated methodology to study social dynamics through different daily, craft, or exceptional tasks in the settlement and thus build variable archaeological narratives about the dynamics of diverse social processes in Neolithic communities. Our analysis demonstrates that a diverse range of household routines and craft operations were conducted publicly in outdoor spaces during the Late Neolithic period in Greece. It suggests that the designated areas examined—the central space and the area west of building A—were two well-organised, polyfunctional, possibly shared spaces, which could have served as potentially communal public venues in Kleitos 1 used for food-processing and craft activities. Additionally, it highlights the impact of development-led excavations on archaeological research and contributes to the advancement of methodology, both in the field and in the laboratory, supporting a pre-emptive, research-based, knowledge-producing approach, centred on documentation and interpretation.

本文通过对燃烧结构作为关键要素的跨学科分析，对户外聚落空间进行了研究。它探讨了户外公共空间的使用及其复杂性、多功能性和对新石器时代社会形成的动态贡献。该研究的重点是位于科扎尼（希腊西北部）的新石器时代晚期定居点 Kleitos 1 的两个指定和相邻的户外空间。选定的场所表明了日常的家庭和可能的手工艺实践，这些实践可能促进了共同的烹饪活动和烹饪传统。本文的主要目标是采用一种综合方法，通过定居点中不同的日常、手艺或特殊任务来研究社会动态，从而构建关于新石器时代社区不同社会过程动态的可变考古叙述。我们的分析表明，在希腊新石器时代晚期，各种家庭日常活动和手工艺操作是在户外空间公开进行的。它表明，所检查的指定区域——中央空间和 A 楼以西的区域——是两个组织良好、多功能、可能是共享的空间，它们本可以作为 Kleitos 1 的潜在公共场所，用于食品加工和手工艺活动。此外，它还强调了以开发为导向的发掘对考古研究的影响，并有助于实地和实验室方法的进步，支持以记录和解释为中心的先发制人、基于研究的知识生产方法。