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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465178403321

Titolo

Past mobilities : archaeological approaches to movement and mobility / / edited by Jim Leary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vermont : , : Ashgate, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-317-08343-1

1-4094-6446-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Migration, Internal - History

Social evolution

Social change

Civilization, Ancient

Excavations (Archaeology)

Antiquities, Prehistoric

Idea (Philosophy)

Memetics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Past Mobility: An Introduction; 2 Past Movements, Tomorrow's Anchors; 3 Enmeshments of Shifting Landscapes and Embodied Movements of People and Animals; 4 Suspended Animations: Mobilities in Rock Art Research; 5 GIS Approaches to Past Mobility and Accessibility; 6 Micro Mobilities and Affordances of Past Places; 7  Mobility and the Skeleton:  A Biomechanical View; 8  Women on the Move. The DNA Evidence for Female Mobility and Exogamy in Prehistory; 9 Mobility in the Roman Empire



10 Travelling by Water. A Chronology of Prehistoric Boat Archaeology/Mobility in EnglandIndex

Sommario/riassunto

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.