Negotiating Migrations
The Archaeology and Politics of Mobility
Will be published approx. on 19. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-350-42770-9 (ISBN)
Description
As a species, we have always been mobile and migration was a habitual feature of prehistoric life. This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations - on the power struggles, negotiations and choices that people make in everyday settings - can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While much archaeological scholarship, using isotopes and aDNA, focuses on migrations as large-scale phenomena and crisis responses, this book offers a new approach by exploring how moving on was embedded in social practice.
This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people's worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.
This book offers a novel reinterpretation of how the political aspects of migration shaped past people's worlds in Europe and beyond, drawing on archaeological, historical, linguistic and aDNA evidence. Overall, the conclusion is that a bottom-up approach can help us to understand migration in the past at a variety of scales, in many different regions of the world
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo.
Reviews / Votes
This book exploits the improved level of genetic resolution we have achieved by providing new archaeological and anthropological interpretations with a global perspective. -- Kristian Kristiansen, Professor of Archaeology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University of Copenhagen, DenmarkMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 bw and 10 colour illus
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-42770-9 (9781350427709)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Daniela Hofmann is Professor in Neolithic Archaeology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Catherine J. Frieman is Associate Professor of European Archaeology at the Australian National University, Australia.
Martin Furholt is Professor of Prehistoric and Social Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany.
Stefan Burmeister is the Director of the Varusschlacht Archaeological Museum, Germany.
Niels Norkjaer Johannsen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Catherine J. Frieman is Associate Professor of European Archaeology at the Australian National University, Australia.
Martin Furholt is Professor of Prehistoric and Social Archaeology at Kiel University, Germany.
Stefan Burmeister is the Director of the Varusschlacht Archaeological Museum, Germany.
Niels Norkjaer Johannsen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Content
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Archaeology and Migration
1. Why a Politics of Migration?
2. Migration at the Large Scale
3. The Middle Distance: Migrations within Regions
4. Mobile People: Interactions at the Small Scale
5. Re-orienting Migration Studies in Archaeology
Conclusions
References
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Archaeology and Migration
1. Why a Politics of Migration?
2. Migration at the Large Scale
3. The Middle Distance: Migrations within Regions
4. Mobile People: Interactions at the Small Scale
5. Re-orienting Migration Studies in Archaeology
Conclusions
References
Index