Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
What Do We Need to Know to Understand Stone Age Migration and Mobility?
Content:
Human migration is the multi-directional movement of people and their thoughts, relationships and materiality – in large groups, smaller units or as individuals over long distances or internally within a region. Archaeological evidence documents extensive spatio-temporal continuity as well as change, revealing a variety of Holocene transformation processes. And, aDNA-studies have contributed with important knowledge about gene flow between populations, with multiple evidence of prehistoric human interaction.
Yet, we still have a relatively poor understanding of how Stone Age migration and mobility impacted on and affected humans and their material lives at various spatio-temporal scales, and we don’t know how it played out in terms of changing relationships and social interaction. For this session, we invite papers that explore these topics.
We call for contributions that discuss integrated approaches in research that deal with various aspects of mobility and migration and combine data with theoretical and interpretative approaches. Papers should exemplify how we can explore theory and data in new ways to present informed analyses and results regarding innovation, knowledge-transfer processes and/or spatio-temporal variation in social processes. In all, we hope this session will bring us closer to grasping what we need to know to understand Stone Age migration and mobility.
Keywords:
Migration, Mobility, Stone Age, Theory, Data, Integrated approaches
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
PaM - Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community
Main organiser:
Anders Högberg (Sweden) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Daniela Hofmann (Norway) 3
Martin Furholt (Germany) 4
Affiliations:
1. Linnaeus University, Sweden
2. Palaeo-Research Institute, University of Johannesburg
3. University of Bergen
4. Kiel University
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