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Intro -- Cover -- Timeline -- Part 1 Close to home -- 1 The stillness of the past -- 2 Moving matters -- Part 2 Treading -- 3 Printmaking: Writing on the earth -- 4 Footfall: Walking as performance -- 5 Pathmarking: Lines in the landscape -- 6 Pilgrim: Moved by the spirit -- 7 Overstepping: Restriction and resistance -- 8 Routefinding: Following the old ways -- Part 3 Trailing -- 9 Feet follow hooves: Walking with animals -- 10 Transhumance: Traversing the uplands -- 11 Wanderland: Shaping and being shaped -- 12 Wayfaring: Being lost and losing oneself -- Part 4 There and back again -- 13 Roadrunning: Travelling the social realm -- 14 Flowing: Journeying with the ferryman -- 15 Weatherscape: Of skies and seasons -- Part 5 Hero's journey -- 16 Time's march: Crossing continents -- 17 One way: Routes and roots -- 18 Seafaring: Across oceans of time -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Notes.

1. Past mobility : an introduction / Jim Leary -- 2. Past movements, tomorrow's anchors : on the relational entanglements between archaeological mobilities / Oscar Aldred -- 3. Enmeshments of shifting landscapes and embodied movements of people and animals / Matt Edgeworth -- 4. Suspended animations : mobilities in rock art research / Ursula K. Frederick -- 5. GIS approaches to past mobility and accessibility : an example from the Bronze Age Khanuy Valley, Mongolia / Oula Seitsonen, Jean-Luc Houle and Lee G. Broderick -- 6. Micro mobilities and affordances of past places / Kirk Woolford and Stuart Dunn -- 7. Mobility and the skeleton : a biomechanical view / Thomas G. Davies. [et al.] -- 8. Women on the move : the DNA evidence for female mobility and exogamy in prehistory / Keri A. Brown -- 9. Mobility in the Roman empire / Lien Foubert and David J. Breeze -- 10. Travelling by water : a chronology of prehistoric boat archaeology/mobility in England / Mark Dunkley.

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