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Quantifying Stone Age Mobility

Scales and Parameters

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Editors:
  1. Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka

    1. Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

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  2. Aleksandr Diachenko

    1. Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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  3. Andrzej Wiśniewski

    1. Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

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  • Focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility
  • Addresses parameters and proxies of population movement
  • Investigates various aspects of mobility including wide scale, seasonal, and migration

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Aleksandr Diachenko, Andrzej Wiśniewski
    Pages 1-9

  3. Wide-Scale Mobility: Environmental Contexts and Cross-Cultural Trends

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Deconstructing Neanderthals’ Mobility from an Environmental Perspective

      • Andrea Picin
      Pages 13-45

    3. Reading the Mobility of Late Palaeolithic Hunter-Gatherers. Case Study from the Sowin Site Complex in Relation to Late Palaeolithic Sites North of the Sudetes and Carpathians

      • Andrzej Wiśniewski, Cyprian Kozyra, Marcin Chłoń
      Pages 47-68

    4. Obsidian Transportation Across the Tsugaru Strait in the Context of the Late Pleistocene

      • Yoshitaka Kanomata, Yosuke Aoki, Shigeki Sasaki, Ryosuke Kumagai, Kaoru Akoshima, Andrey V. Tabarev
      Pages 69-94

  4. Seasonal Mobility of Paleolithic and Mesolithic Hunter-Gatherers: In a Search for Proxies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Approaching Late Paleolithic Seasonal Mobility on the North European Plain

      • Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Aleksandr Diachenko
      Pages 97-128

    3. Seasonal Mobility in the Dutch Mesolithic, a View from Different Perspectives

      • Axel Müller, Lucy Kubiak-Martens, Annemieke Verbaas
      Pages 129-152

    4. Marking Mesolithic Mobility: The Curious Case of Pit Hearth Clusters in the Low Countries

      • Marcel J. L. Th. Niekus
      Pages 153-191

    5. Spatial Distribution of Mezhyrichian Objects (Eastern Epigravettian): A Model of Seasonal Mobility

      • Pavlo S. Shydlovskyi, Ostap I. Tsvirkun, Stéphane Péan, Marharyta V. Chymyrys
      Pages 193-224

  5. Migration, Niche Construction, Utilitarian and Non-utilitarian Factors of Mobility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Moving on: Dispersal and Niche Construction

      • Marc Vander Linden
      Pages 227-247

    3. Migrating to the Golden Door: Fleeing Adversity

      • Aleksandr Diachenko, Jay Leavitt, Ezra B. W. Zubrow
      Pages 249-276

    4. SARP Revisited: Reconstructing Population Trends Through Large-Scale Analysis of Archaeological Settlement Data

      • Thomas K. Harper
      Pages 277-295
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About this book

This book focuses on the analysis of different scales of mobility and addresses parameters and proxies of population movement aiming at the formation of a ‘ground’ for the further development of quantitative approaches. In order to do so, the volume explores wide scale mobility (environmental contexts and cross-cultural trends), seasonal mobility of Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, and migration, niche construction, utilitarian and non- utilitarian factors of mobility.

Chapters in the volume include case studies from across Europe and Asia. The editors’ introduction addresses the current state of mobility discourse in archaeology. The chapters address questions related to parameters used to describe different factors of movement and examines correlations between parameters describing environmental diversity, demography, and the values representing spatial movement. This volume is of interest to students and researchers of mobility of human beings in the past.


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Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

    Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka

  • Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    Aleksandr Diachenko

  • Institute of Archaeology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

    Andrzej Wiśniewski

About the editors

Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka is a University Professor of Archeology at the Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, Poland. Her research focus on the issue of Late Palaeolithic communities from the North European Plain, especially on the relations humans – environment. She carried out two multidisciplinary projects, financed by National Science Centre-Poland, aimed on recognition of the lifeways Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in present-day Western Poland. She also took part in excavations in Sudan (Khartoum, Khor Shambat) and analyzed Mesolithic pottery of that region. Her ongoing research covers transformations and modifications of culture in prehistory.


Aleksandr Diachenko is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev. His research interests cover archaeological method and theory, spatial analysis and mathematical simulations in archaeology, and Eneolithic of Southeastern Europe. His research on Cucuteni-Tripolye cultural complex focuses on settlement systems, mobility, including migratory behaviour, and culture change. Most recently Aleksandr Diachenko in collaboration with Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka develops mathematical approaches to the dynamics of prehistoric culture.


Andrzej Wiśniewski is a University Professor of Archeology at the University of Wrocław, Poland. His research interests that encompass settlement strategies and technology of the Middle and Late Palaeolithic of Central Europe, implementation of statistical methods in archaeology as well as understanding of site formation processes, has resulted in numerous publications. He is a supporter of the multi-regional concept of the development of advanced lithic technologies in the Middle Palaeolithic. He is the project leader of excavations at Sowin, Haller Avenue in Wrocław and Pietraszyn 49a (Poland). His main current research concerns the period of the disappearance of archaic people andthe beginnings of the anatomically modern humans.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantifying Stone Age Mobility

  • Book Subtitle: Scales and Parameters

  • Editors: Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Aleksandr Diachenko, Andrzej Wiśniewski

  • Series Title: Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94368-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94367-7Published: 03 June 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94370-7Published: 04 June 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94368-4Published: 02 June 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2366-5998

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-6005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 295

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History, general, Archaeology, Anthropology, Biotechnology

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