Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. inhabited places
6. [settlements by function]
7. [settlements by function: military]

Narrower term/s

• walled settlements

Anotations

Scope note:

Settlements of any kind with defensive structures such as moats, enclosures, or ramparts. Fortification became necessary from the Neolithic period onward, as people began to settle in one place.