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Memory and forgetting are fundamental to human existence and
experiences of the world. Within archaeology, there has been
increasing interest in the role of the past in the past. To date,
however, there has been little specific discussion of how such
long-term persistence of place and practice was possible; and why
this was the case. The sixteen papers in this volume use detailed
contextual evidence to address these questions. In many instances,
contributors discuss less visible examples where 'memory work' can
be identified from non-monumental, 'everyday' landscapes. The case
studies focus on British archaeology from the Neolithic to the
early medieval period, but other contributions deal with Neolithic
Central Europe, ancient Etruscan and Egyptian landscapes, and
historic Native American practices. The volume interweaves
theoretical considerations of memory, materiality and landscape
with exciting evidence emerging from research and developer-funded
commercial archaeology, challenging existing methodologies and
proposing new research questions for future fieldwork and
post-excavation practice.
Despite notable explorations of past dynamics, much of the
archaeological literature on mobility remains dominated by accounts
of earlier prehistoric gatherer-hunters, or the long-distance
exchange of materials. Refinements of scientific dating techniques,
isotope, trace element and aDNA analyses, in conjunction with
phenomenological investigation, computer-aided landscape modelling
and GIS-style approaches to large data sets, allow us to follow the
movement of people, animals and objects in the past with greater
precision and conviction. One route into exploring mobility in the
past may be through exploring the movements and biographies of
artefacts. Challenges lie not only in tracing the origins and final
destinations of objects but in the less tangible ‘in between’
journeys and the hands they passed through. Biographical approaches
to artefacts include the recognition that culture contact and
hybridity affect material culture in meaningful ways. Furthermore,
discrete and bounded ‘sites’ still dominate archaeological
inquiry, leaving the spaces and connectivities between features and
settlements unmapped. These are linked to an under-explored
middle-spectrum of mobility, a range nestled between everyday
movements and one-off ambitious voyages. We wish to explore how
these travels involved entangled meshworks of people, animals,
objects, knowledge sets and identities. By crossing and re-crossing
cultural, contextual and tenurial boundaries, such journeys could
create diasporic and novel communities, ideas and materialities.
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