Moving on in Neolithic Studies

Understanding Mobile Lives

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2016
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-176-4 (ISBN)

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This volume examines the importance and complexities of movement and mobility in the Neolithic period. This ranges from everyday mobilities to proscribed mobility, such as movement in and around monuments, and occasional and large-scale movements and migrations around the continent and across seas.

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.

Jim Leary is a lecturer in archaeology at York University and previously held posts at Reading University and English Heritage. He has also published several books and numerous research papers. He is a co-editor of NSG 10 (see above) and also NSG 14 (Moving on in Neolithic Studies: understanding mobile lives).

Foreword

Preface and acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Movement and mobility in the Neolithic

Jim Leary and Thomas Kador

2 Varied mobility in the Neolithic: The Linearbandkeramik on the move

Penny Bickle

3 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

4 Movement and thresholds: Architecture and landscape at the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland

Sam Moore

5 Monuments to mobility? – investigating cursus patterning in southern Britain

Roy Loveday

6 Routeways of the Neolithic

Fiona Haughey

7 Coastal Connections: Coastal mobility in the Neolithic

Alice Rogers

8 Should I stay or should I go? Movement and Mobility in the Hebridean Neolithic

Angela Gannon

9 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

Reihe/Serie	Neolithic Studies Group Seminar Papers ; 14
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78570-176-2 / 1785701762
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-176-4 / 9781785701764
Zustand	Neuware