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’, ‘travelling 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; artefact studies; lithic scatters and assemblage diversity.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• List of Contributors
• Chapter 1: Movement and mobility in the Neolithic
• Chapter 2: Varied mobility in the Neolithic: The Linearbandkeramik on the move
• Chapter 3: Resourcing Stonehenge: Patterns of human, animal and goods mobility in the Late Neolithic
• Chapter 4: Movement and thresholds: Architecture and landscape at the Carrowkeel-Keshcorran passage tomb complex, Co. Sligo, Ireland
• Chapter 5: Monuments to mobility? Investigating cursus patterning in southern Britain
• Chapter 6: Routeways of the Neolithic
• Chapter 7: Coastal connections: Coastal mobility in the Neolithic
• Chapter 8: Should I stay or should I go? Movement and mobility in the Hebridean Neolithic
• Chapter 9: Scattered in time and space: Ploughzone lithics and mobility in the Neolithic
• Chapter 10: The social construction of place, mobility and stone in Neolithic South-West Britain: A case study from Mendip