(I)mobilities in Prehistory: People, resources, objects, sites and territories

Authors

Raquel Vilaça
University of Coimbra, Faculty of Letters
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0019-7256
Rodrigo Simas de Aguiar
Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8973-8332
Keywords: Mobility/ Immobility, Preliterate communities, Landscape Archaeology, Interdisciplinarity

Synopsis

(I) Mobilities in Prehistory. People, resources, objects, sites and territories is the result of the acknowledgement of human mobility as a central subject in archaeological research. It presents itself as a book with a plural and broad range, showcasing several contributions with distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches, multiple empirical case studies and different geographies across a large time span.
This holistic and integrated framework is the one that is required to analyse mobility, a complex and multidimensional phenomenon of undeniable importance for the understanding of the dynamics that shaped past communities and their relations, not only between themselves, but also with the territory - dynamics that take shape in artefacts and structures, in built and lived landscapes bestowed to the passage of time.
More than a contribution about a subject that explores divergent paths, this book intends, as well, to challenge other investigators to push forward a theme full of potential and relevance in a world that is now, more than ever before, in motion.

Author Biographies

Raquel Vilaça, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Letters

Raquel Vilaça holds the post of Full Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Coimbra University (FLUC), where she has spent her entire academic career and in which she has taught full time. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises MA and PhD dissertations, especially on Prehistory and Protohistory, her field of specialization. Her main research interests are Natural Landscape Archaeology, Cultural Processes and the Material Culture of Death, Ancient Technology and Metallurgy and Archaeometry. She has published several books and articles on these subjects. She is a member of the Archaeology Institute, of which she was the Director, and also edited the Conímbriga Magazine. She is a researcher in the Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences Research Center. She has held several management positions in the Faculty and is currently an elected member of the Scientific Board of the FLUC.

Rodrigo Simas de Aguiar, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados

Rodrigo Luiz Simas de Aguiar. PhD in Anthropology at the Salamanca University (2003), Spain. Post-doctorate in Anthropology also in Salamanca University (2011). Post-doctorate in Prehistoric Archaeology at the Coimbra University, Portugal. Associate Professor at the Federal University of Grande Dourados, Brazil, where also coordinates the Archaeology Lab. Main research interest: Prehistoric Archaeology, Rock Art and Anthropology of Art.

(I)mobilidades na Pré-História
Published
April 2, 2020

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ISBN-13 (15)
978-989-26-1956-9
Date of first publication (11)
2020-04-02
Hijri Calendar
doi
10.14195/978-989-26-1956-9

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