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Introduction: Mobilities in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology

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Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement

Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology ((CGHA,volume 35))

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This collection of essays draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. Contemporary scholarship has highlighted the enmeshed nature of people and things (Olsen, 2010), with a particular focus on temporality as an expression of overlapping durational flows (Olivier, 2004, 2008). In our globalized world, archaeologists of the recent past are faced with a proliferation of movement episodes that shaped and are shaping the archaeological record (cf. Sheller & Urry, 2006).

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    Mary C. Beaudry & Travis G. Parno

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Beaudry, M.C., Parno, T.G. (2013). Introduction: Mobilities in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology. In: Beaudry, M., Parno, T. (eds) Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 35. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6211-8_1

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