Past Mobilities Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility

The new mobilities paradigm has yet to have the same impact on archaeology as it has in other disciplines in the social sciences - on geography, sociology and anthropology in particular - yet mobility is fundamental to archaeology: all people move. Moving away from archaeology?s traditional focus upon place or location, this volume treats mobility as a central theme in archaeology. The chapters are wide-ranging and methodological as well as theoretical, focusing on the flows of people, ideas, objects and information in the past; they also focus on archaeology?s distinctiveness. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence for movement, from paths, monuments, rock art and boats, to skeletal and DNA evidence, Past Mobilities presents research from a range of examples from around the world to explore the relationship between archaeology and movement, thus adding an archaeological voice to the broader mobilities discussion. As such, it will be of interest not only to archaeologists and historians, but also to sociologists, geographers and anthropologists.

Chapter 1 Past Mobility, JimLeary; Chapter 2 Past Movements, Tomorrow’s Anchors. On the Relational Entanglements Between Archaeological Mobilities, OscarAldred; Chapter 3 Enmeshments of Shifting Landscapes and Embodied Movements of People and Animals, MattEdgeworth; Chapter 4 Suspended Animations, Ursula K.Frederick; Chapter 5 GIS Approaches to Past Mobility and Accessibility, OulaSeitsonen, Jean-LucHoule, Lee G.Broderick; Chapter 6 Micro Mobilities and Affordances of Past Places, KirkWoolford, StuartDunn; Chapter 7 Mobility and the Skeleton, Thomas G.Davies, EmmaPomeroy, Colin N.Shaw, Jay T.Stock; Chapter 8 Women on the Move. The DNA Evidence for Female Mobility and Exogamy in Prehistory, Keri A.Brown; Chapter 9 Mobility in the Roman Empire, LienFoubert, David J.Breeze; Chapter 10 Travelling by Water. A Chronology of Prehistoric Boat Archaeology/Mobility in England, MarkDunkley;

Dr Jim Leary is Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Reading, UK. He is co-editor of Round Mounds and Monumentality in the British Isles and Beyond, and co-author of The Story of Silbury Hill and Silbury Hill. The Largest Prehistoric Mound in Europe.