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Migration in Archeology: The Baby and the Bathwater
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Migration has been largely ignored by archeologists for the last two decades. Yet prehistoric demography and population studies are accepted as central concerns, and neither of these can be studied profitably without an understanding of migration. Recent books by Rouse and Renfrew have resurrected migration as a subject of serious analysis. It is proposed here that systems‐oriented archeologists, in rejecting migration, have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Traditional archeological approaches to migration fall short because a methodology for examining prehistoric migration must be dependent upon an understanding of the general structure of migration as a patterned human behavior. Aspects of such a structure are suggested and an application to a particular case in Eastern Europe is described.
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Reconstructing prehistoric movement pathways remains methodologically challenging.
“Despite extensive archaeological research into trade and exchange, reconstructing prehistoric movement pathways remains methodologically challenging (Anthony 1990, Furholt 2018, Furholt 2021, Kintigh et al. 2014, Suchowska-Ducke 2015).”
From Comparing Connectivity Patterns in Prehistoric Germany by Means of Network Analysis, Artefact and Site Distribution and a Reassessment of Human Mobility ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) (2026) · cites this paper as Anthony 1990
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- Anthony, D. W.
- Venue
- American Anthropologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1990-12
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 895-914
- ISSN
- 0002-7294
- 1548-1433
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- 387
- References
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- Language
- en
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