Moving on in Neolithic studies : understanding mobile lives / edited by Jim Leary and Thomas Kador.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leary, Jim, editor.

Kador, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Neolithic Studies Group seminar papers ; 14.

Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neolithic period.

Nomads.

Migration, Internal.

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Princeton University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Mobility is a fundamental facet of being human and should be central to archaeology. Yet mobility itself and the role it plays in the production of social life, is rarely considered as a subject in its own right. This is particularly so with discussions of the Neolithic people where mobility is often framed as being somewhere between a sedentary existence and nomadic movements. This latest collection of papers from the Neolithic Studies Group seminars examines the importance and complexities of movement and mobility, whether on land or water, in the Neolithic period. It uses movement in its widest sense, ranging from everyday mobilities - the routines and rhythms of daily life - to proscribed mobility, such as movement in and around monuments, and occasional and large-scale movements and migrations around the continent and across seas. Papers are roughly grouped and focus on 'mobility and the landscape', 'monuments and mobility', 'travelling by water', and 'materials and mobility'. Through these themes the volume considers the movement of people, ideas, animals, objects, and information, and uses a wide range of archaeological evidence from isotope analysis; artefact studies; lithic scatters and assemblage diversity.

Contents:

Movement and mobility in the Neolithic / Jim Leary and Thomas Kador

Varied mobility in the Neolithic : the Linearbandkeramik on the move / Penny Bickle

Resourcing Stonehenge : patterns of human, animal and goods mobility in the late neolithic / Benjamin Chan, Sarah Viner, Mike Parker Pearson, Umberto Albarella and Rob Ixer

Movement and thresholds : architecture and landscape at the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland / Sam Moore

Monuments to mobility? : investigating cursus patterning in southern Britain / Roy Loveday

Routeways of the Neolithic / Fiona Haughey

Coastal connections : coastal mobility in the Neolithic / Alice Rogers

Should I stay or should I go? : movement and mobility in the Hebridean Neolithic / Angela Gannon

Scattered in time and space : ploughzone lithics and mobility in the Neolithic / Jonathan Last

The social construction of place, mobility and stone in Neolithic south-west Britain : a case study from Mendip / Clive Jonathon Bond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785701795

1785701797

9781785701771

1785701770

OCLC:

940796143