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Addresses the revolutionary impact of genetics, isotopes, and data science on the study of migration and mobility in past human societies. One of the most significant challenges in archaeology is understanding how (and why) humans migrate. Homo Migrans examines the past, present, and future states of migration and mobility studies in archaeological discourse. Contributors draw on revolutionary twenty-first-century advances in genetics, isotope studies, and data manipulation that have resolved longstanding debates about past human movement and have helped clarify the relationships between archaeological remains and human behavior and identity. These emerging techniques have also pressed archaeologists and historians to develop models that responsibly incorporate method, theory, and data in ways that honor the complexity of human behavior and relationships. This volume articulates the challenges that lie ahead as scholars draw from genomic studies, computational science, social theory, cognitive and evolutionary studies, environmental history, and network analysis to clarify the nature of human migration in world history. With case studies focusing on European and Mediterranean history and prehistory (as well as global history), Homo Migrans presents integrated methodologies and analyses that will interest any scholar researching migration and mobility in the human past.

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Author:   Megan J. Daniels
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.826kg
ISBN:  

9781438488011

ISBN 10:   1438488017
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   01 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations 1. Movement as a Constant? Envisioning a Migration‑Centered Worldview of Human History Megan J. Daniels Part I: New Data and New Narratives 2. Toward a New Prehistory: Re‑Theorizing Genes, Culture, and Migratory Expansions Kristian Kristiansen 3. Migration, Ancient DNA, and Bronze Age Pastoralists from the Eurasian Steppes David W. Anthony 4. The Conceptual Impacts of Genomics to the Archaeology of Movement Omer Gokcumen Part II: Migrations, Visible and Invisible: Toward More Inclusive Histories 5. New Data and Old Narratives: Migrants and the Conjoining of the Cultures and Economies of the pre‑Roman Western Mediterranean Franco De Angelis 6. Captives: The Invisible Migrant Catherine M. Cameron 7. The In/Visiblity of Migration Elena Isayev 8. A Harbor Scene: Reassessing Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Following the Archaeological Science Revolution Assaf Yasur‑Landau Part III: Computational Models of Migration 9. Surfing with the Alien: Simulating and Testing the Spread of Early Farming across the Adriatic Basin Marc Vander Linden, Cornelis Drost, Jane Gaastra, Ivana Jovanović, Sébastien Manem, and Anne de Vareilles 10. The Settlement Record, Paleodemography, and Evidence for Migrations in Eneolithic Ukraine Thomas K. Harper 11. N Site Continuous Model for Migration: Parameter and Prehistoric Tests Ezra B. W. Zubrow, Aleksandr Diachenko, and Jay Leavitt Part IV: Sociohistorical Models of Migration 12. Toward A Social Archaeology of Forced Migration: Rebuilding Landscapes of Memory in Medieval Armenian Cilicia Aurora E. Camaño 13. Macro- and Micro‑Mobilities and the Creation of Identity in the Ancient Near East Anne Porter 14. Wandering Ports on the Datça Peninsula: Exploring Regional Mobility in a Maritime Landscape Elizabeth S. Greene and Justin Leidwanger Part V: Migration and Complexity 15. Assessing the Possibility of Trans‑Maritime Mobility in Archaic Hominins: Does Afro‑Eurasian Coastal Palaeogeography Support Sweepstakes Dispersal in Homo? Thomas P. Leppard 16. Homo mobilis: Interactions, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene Hans Barnard Contributors Index

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Megan J. Daniels is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Material Culture at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

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