Session: #377

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The circulation of ideas, technologies, material culture and individuals was prominent in the past in different forms and under diverse motivations. The 21st century has seen a strong interest in archaeological mobility studies, leading to the emergence of the so-called ‘mobilities’ paradigm. To disentangle the complex and dynamic movement of people, ideas, technologies, and objects, contemporary research acknowledges the importance of adopting multi-scalar approaches, encompassing the movement of single individuals and broader groups or entire populations, coupled with the circulation of material culture either as finished objects or as ideas and technologies. This session aims at bringing together scholars to discuss the challenges and potential of blending different methodological and theoretical approaches so that a deeper understanding of past mobility is gained. We are particularly interested in contributions that approach mobility across multiple scales. These scales may be a) spatiotemporal, that is, studies examining mobility at different durations of time and/or at a shorter and longer geographic scale, b) methodological, that is, transdisciplinary studies that provide complementary information on different dimensions of past mobility, or c) thematic, that is, studies that examine mobility simultaneously at the level of past individuals and groups or at the level of ideas/technologies and finished objects.

Session: #377

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