Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia

Manuel Fernández-Götz is Abercromby Professor of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are Iron Age and Roman societies in Europe, the archaeology of identities, and conflict archaeology. He has authored over 200 publications and directed fieldwork projects in Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Croatia. His research has been recognised with the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Thomas Reid Medal. He is currently directing the Leverhulme-funded project 'Beyond Walls: Reassessing Iron Age and Roman Encounters in Northern Britain'.Courtney Nimura is the Curator of Later European Prehistory at the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She completed her PhD at the University of Reading in 2013, and since then has worked on and led several research projects on topics such as Bronze Age Northern European rock art, Iron Age art and coins, and later prehistoric rivers in Britain. Her research focuses on rock art and portable art in Europe; Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology in Northern, Central, and Western Europe; coastal and intertidal archaeology; effects of environmental change on art production; and the intersections of archaeological and anthropological theory in prehistoric art studies.Philipp W. Stockhammer is Professor for prehistoric archaeology with a focus on the Eastern Mediterranean at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and Co-director of the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. After his PhD in Heidelberg in 2008, he worked as a Post-doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Universities of Heidelberg and Basel. He leads several collaborative research projects on the Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, among them an ERC Starting Grant (2015) and an ERC Consolidator Grant (2020). His research focuses on intercultural encounter, social practices, bioarchaeology, mobility, food, and health.Rachel Cartwright is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Previously, she studied Archaeology, History, and Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and Durham University. Her research is centred on the Viking Age migrations in the North Atlantic, with a particular focus on Iceland and northern Scotland. She has carried out fieldwork in the United States, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, and Croatia.

…the volume successfully makes a massive body of fresh information available to a wide audience. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the knowledge being opened up by new scientific approaches or in this critical phase in the development of Europe.

• 1: MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, COURTNEY NIMURA, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, AND RACHEL CARTWRIGHT: Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia: An Introduction2: MAJA GORI AND AYDIN ABAR: Comparing Apples and Oranges? Confronting Social Science and Natural Science Approaches to Migration in Archaeology3: VOLKER HEYD: The Mobility and Migration Revolution in Third Millennium BC Europe4: ANDREW P. FITZPATRICK: Bell Beaker Mobility: Marriage, Migration, and Mortality5: KRISTIAN KRISTIANSEN: Bronze Age Travellers6: THOMAS STÖLLNER, HANDE ÖZYARKENT, AND ANTON GONTSCHAROV: Andronovo Mobility Revisited: New Research on Bronze Age Mining and Metallurgical Communities in Central Asia7: BARRY MOLLOY, CAROLINE BRUYÈRE, AND DRAGAN JOVANOVI: Rethinking Material Culture Markers for Mobility and Migration in the Globalising European Later Bronze Age: A Comparative View from the Po Valley and Pannonian Plain8: PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER AND KEN MASSY: Mobility at the Onset of the Bronze Age: A Bioarchaeological Perspective9: KATHARINA REBAY-SALISBURY: Marriage, Motherhood, and Mobility in Bronze and Iron Age Central Europe10: CAROLA METZNER-NEBELSICK: Migration in Archaeological Discourse: Two Case Studies from the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age11: PETER S. WELLS: The Scale of Population Movements: A Model for Later Prehistory12: VERONICA CICOLANI AND LORENZO ZAMBONI: Alpine Connections: Iron Age Mobility in the Po Valley and the Circum-Alpine Regions13: IAN ARMIT: Mobility and Migration in Bronze and Iron Age Britain: The COMMIOS Project14: NICO ROYMANS AND DIEDERICK HABERMEHL: Migration and Ethnic Dynamics in the Lower Rhine Frontier Zone of the Expanding Roman Empire (60 BC-AD 20): A Historical-Anthropological Perspective15: COURTNEY NIMURA, RACHEL CARTWRIGHT, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, AND MANUEL FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ: On the Move: Relating Past and Present Human Mobility