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’, ‘traveling 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; artifact studies; lithic scatters and assemblage diversity.Table of ContentsForewordPreface and acknowledgementsList of ContributorsMovement and mobility in the Neolithic Jim Leary and Thomas Kador2 Varied mobility in the Neolithic: The Linearbandkeramik on the move Penny Bickle3 Resourcing Stonehenge: patterns of human, animal and goods mobility in the late Neolithic Benjamin Chan, Sarah Viner, Mike Parker Pearson, Umberto Albarella and Rob Ixer4 Movement and thresholds: Architecture and landscape at the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland Sam Moore5 Monuments to mobility? – investigating cursus patterning in southern Britain Roy Loveday6 Routeways of the Neolithic Fiona Haughey7 Coastal Connections: Coastal mobility in the Neolithic Alice Rogers8 Should I stay or should I go? Movement and Mobility in the Hebridean Neolithic Angela Gannon9 Scattered in time and space: Ploughzone lithics and mobility in the Neolithic Jonathan LastThe social construction of place, mobility and stone in Neolithic South-West Britain: A case study from Mendip Clive Jonathon Bond
