Making journeys : archaeologies of movement / edited by Catriona D. Gibson, Kerri Cleary, and Catherine J. Frieman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gibson, Catriona, editor.

Cleary, Kerri, editor.

Frieman, Catherine, 1982- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Material culture.

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.

Intercultural communication--History--To 1500.

Intercultural communication.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2021.

Summary:

Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques, isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modelling and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of artefacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final destinations of objects but in the less tangible `in between' journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches to artefacts include the recognition that culture contact and hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore, discrete and bounded `sites' still dominate archaeological inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals, objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Making journeys, blurring boundaries and celebrating transience: a movement towards archaeologies of in-betweenness / Catriona D. Gibson

2. The role of persistent places and landmarks in navigation / Yolande O'Brien

3. Archaeology and movement one step at a time! / Oscar Aldred

4. The Dover Bronze Age boat as a `non-place': some reflections on maritime mobility in the Bronze Age of the Transmanche / Peter Clark

5. From self-sufficiency to interdependence: changes in the Cypriot socio-economic structure in the light of mobility during the second millennium BC / Francesco Chelazzi

6. Travelling lines: linear earthworks and movement on the prehistoric Yorkshire Wolds / Emily Fioccoprile

7. Bronze Age wayfaring and the monumentalised landscape / James Lewis

8. Itineraries of pottery: theorising mobility and movement of humans and things / Regine Stopfer

9. Theorising `nomadic' betweenness: movement, contingency and materiality in the pastoral societies of the Bronze Age Eurasian steppe / James A. Johnson

10. Neolithic mobility in western Sweden: interpretations of strontium isotope ratios of the megalithic population in Falbygden / Corina Knipper.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781785709302

1785709305

OCLC:

1002835633

Publisher Number:

99988393788