Quantifying Stone Age Mobility : Scales and Parameters / [E-Book]

Introduction; Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Aleksandr Diachenko and Andrzej Wiśniewski -- Part 1. Wide-scale mobility: Environmental contexts and cross-cultural trends -- Chapter 1. Deconstructing Neanderthals mobility; Andrea Picin -- Chapter 2. Reading the past mobility of Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. The case study from Sowin complex, South-Western Poland; Andrzej Wiśniewski, Cyprian Kozyra and Marcin Chłoń -- Chapter 3. Obsidian Transportation from Hokkaido to Honshu Island across the Tsugaru Strait in the Late Upper Paleolithic; Yoshitaka Kanomata, Yosuke Aoki, Ryosuke Kumagai, Shigeki Sasaki and Kaoru Akoshima -- Part 2. Seasonal mobility of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers: In a search for proxies -- Chapter 4. Approaching Late Palaeolithic mobility on the North European Plain; Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka and Aleksandr Diachenko -- Chapter 5. A house near the river. Mesolithic land use and a rare dwelling structure from the Netherlands; Alex Muller -- Chapter 6. Measuring Mesolithic mobility: the case of pit hearths in the Netherlands; Marcel Niekus -- Chapter 7. Spatial analysis of objects attributed to the Mezhyrichian Epigravettian culture: A model of mobility; Pavlo Shydlovskyi, Oleksii Tsvirkun and Stefan Pean -- Part 3. Migration, niche construction, utilitarian and non-utilitarian factors of mobility -- Chapter 8. Moving on: dispersal and niche construction; Marc Vander Linden -- Chapter 9. Perception and migration: Prehistoric studies; Ezra B.W. Zubrow, Jay Leavitt and Aleksandr Diachenko -- Chapter 10. SARP revisited: reconstructing population trends through large-scale analysis of archaeological settlement data; Tom Harper.

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a 'ground' for the further development of quantitative approaches. In order to do so, the volume explores wide scale mobility (environmental contexts and cross-cultural trends), seasonal mobility of Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and migration, niche construction, utilitarian and non- utilitarian factors of mobility. Chapters in the volume include case studies from across Europe and Asia. The editors' introduction addresses the current state of mobility discourse in archaeology. The chapters address questions related to parameters used to describe different factors of movement and examines correlations between parameters describing environmental diversity, demography, and the values representing spatial movement. This volume is of interest to students and researchers of mobility of human beings in the past.