Addresses the revolutionary impact of genetics, isotopes, and data science on the study of migration and mobility in past human societies.

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Chapter One Movement as a Constant? Envisioning a Migration‑Centered Worldview of Human History
• Part I New Data and New Narratives
  • Chapter Two Toward a New Prehistory: Re‑Theorizing Genes, Culture, and Migratory Expansions
    • The Third Science Revolution in Archaeology
    • The Challenge in Front of Us
    • Forms of Migratory Expansion and Mobility
      • Colonizing Expansions/Community Colonization
      • Conquest Colonization/System Expansion
    • Time and Transformation: The Forces of Initial Farming Colonization, Pastoral Migration and Conquest Migrations
      • Economic Drivers and Constraints
    • The Role of Captives and Unfree
    • Mechanisms of Cultural Exclusion/Inclusion during Expansion
    • The Two Cultures: Where Now?
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Three Migration, Ancient DNA, and Bronze Age Pastoralists from the Eurasian Steppes
    • Nomads from the East
    • The Baby and the Bathwater
    • Better Methods and Theories: Ancient DNA, Isotopes, and Neolithic Migrations
    • The aDNA Revolution of 2015: Massive Migrations from the Steppes
      • 1. Were the Yamnaya migrants genetically homogeneous or diverse?
      • 2. Who were the scouts? How were they connected to the populations in the destination region?
      • 3. Why did the migrants create a new material culture in central Europe?
      • 4. Who migrated? Was it entire Yamnaya social groups, or mainly males?
    • Was Gimbutas Right?
    • Acknowledgments
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Four The Conceptual Impacts of Genomics to the Archaeology of Movement
    • The How and Why of Genomics
    • Culture‑Historical Archaeology Is Dead; Long Live Culture‑Historical Archaeogenomics
    • Complicating the Process
    • Severing the Ties from Past and Present: The Case of Anatolia
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgments
    • References Cited
• Part II Migrations, Visible and Invisible: Toward More Inclusive Histories
  • Chapter Five New Data and Old Narratives: Migrants and the Conjoining of the Cultures and Economies of the pre‑Roman Western Mediterranean
    • Polarized Narratives on the Role of Immigrants
    • Testing the Backwardness Narrative and Proposing an Alternative
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Six Captives: The Invisible Migrant
    • Migration, Forced Migrants, and Archaeology
    • A Global Look at Captives as Forced Migrants
      • Warfare and Male Prestige
      • The Geography and Demography of Captive Taking
      • Who Was Taken?
      • Numbers
    • Captives, Material Culture, and Social Boundaries
    • Broadening Our View of Migration
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Seven The In/Visiblity of Migration
    • Migrant Terminologies
    • Being Visible
      • Italians in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Republic—the Last Three Centuries B.C.
      • Massacre in Asia Minor
      • Visibility and the Case of Delos
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Eight A Harbor Scene: Reassessing Mobility in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean Following the Archaeological Science Revolution
    • The Need for New and Improved Theoretical Models for Mobility in Archaeology
    • A Snapshot of Co‑Occurring Mobility in the Harbor Scene in the Tomb of Kenamun
    • Multicultural Families in Coastal and Harbor Sites
    • Interpreting Mobility of Cattle and Other Domestic Animals
    • Conclusions
    • References Cited
• Part III Computational Models of Migration
  • Chapter Nine Surfing with the Alien: Simulating and Testing the Spread of Early Farming across the Adriatic Basin
    • Simulating a Demographically Driven Migration
    • Testing Assumptions
    • Testing the Model: The Zooarchaeological Record
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgments
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Ten The Settlement Record, Paleodemography, and Evidence for Migrations in Eneolithic Ukraine
    • The Settlement Record and Population Development
      • The Cucuteni‑Tripolye Complex
      • Population History
    • Methods and Analysis
      • Neo‑Neolithic Paleodemography
      • Calculating Potential Natural Increase
    • Discussion
    • Conclusion
    • Acknowledgments
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Eleven N Site Continuous Model for Migration: Parameter and Prehistoric Tests
    • Introduction
    • Theory
      • The Fundamental Theory
      • The Extended Theory
    • The Simulation Model
      • Data Input
      • Results
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References Cited
• Part IV Sociohistorical Models of Migration
  • Chapter Twelve Toward A Social Archaeology of Forced Migration: Rebuilding Landscapes of Memory in Medieval Armenian Cilicia
    • Defining Forced Migration
    • Researching Forced Migrants in Archaeology and Anthropology
    • A Comparative Landscape Approach
    • Migrant Memory, Place Making, and Myth in Armenian Cilicia
      • Building Familiarity and Place Attachment
      • Imagined Histories and the Role of Myth
    • Conclusions
    • Acknowledgments
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Thirteen Macro- and Micro‑Mobilities and the Creation of Identity in the Ancient Near East
    • Micro‑Mobilities
    • Micro‑Mobilities
      • The Uruk and Kura‑Araxes Expansions
      • The Assyrian Traders
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Fourteen Wandering Ports on the Datça Peninsula: Exploring Regional Mobility in a Maritime Landscape
    • Shifting Centralities and Mobilities on the Datça Peninsula
    • Network Modeling of Routine Regional Mobilities
    • Evolving Networks on the Datça Peninsula
    • Conclusions: Network Mobilities on the Datça Peninsula and Beyond
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
• Part V Migration and Complexity
  • Chapter Fifteen Assessing the Possibility of Trans‑Maritime Mobility in Archaic Hominins: Does Afro‑Eurasian Coastal Palaeogeography Support Sweepstakes Dispersal in Homo?
    • The Ocean as Barrier to—or Facilitator of—Movement?
      • Northwest Eurasia: Gibraltar, Bab‑el‑Mandeb, and the Balkans
      • Southeast Asia: Across the Wallace‑Huxley Line
      • Taking Stock of the Data
    • The Paleogeographic Contexts of Overwater Dispersal in Homo
      • Modes of Dispersal in Terrestrial Mammals
      • Spatial Patterning in Pleistocene Data
    • Paleogeography and Sweepstakes Dispersal in Homo
    • Conclusions: Variability in Hominin Maritime Dispersal
    • Acknowledgments
    • Notes
    • References Cited
  • Chapter Sixteen Homo mobilis: Interactions, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene
    • DNA Analysis in Archaeological Research
    • Movement and Consciousness
    • Human Grasp and the Game of Chess
    • Movement as Catalyst of History
    • Acknowledgments
    • Note
    • References Cited
• Contributors
• Index