Summary
Movement is a mechanism through which which humans interact, explore and assign an order to the space around them (Ingold and Vergunst, 2008). Therefore, investigate mobility networks is essential to understand social dynamics. This session focuses on the potential outcomes of studying the integration of mobility and settlement patterns to understand the frameworks of Ancient Landscapes. In this sense, the session aims to explore ways to integrate movement and settlements patterns in order to get a better understanding of landscapes in Archaeology. We would like to examine the theoretical and methodological implications of an integrated study of movement, pathways and settlement dynamics. In order to do it, it is also imperative to uncover the temporality of the communication networks in relation to territory as well as their role within the social framework. In addition, when analysing communication networks, it is also imperative to uncover the temporality of the communication networks in relation to territory as well as their role within the social framework. the questions to discuss are: When a communication network between different points started? When the material marks were created and when abandoned? It is possible to identify changes in the movement direction and intensity over time? It is possible to observe the interaction of path networks and settlements patterns at different temporal and spatial scales? These variations can explain the changes in the settlement dispersions over the different historical periods? What methodologies we need to ascertain it and what theoretical approaches we need to explain? What is the contribution of state-of-the-art digital technology?We welcome papers addressing these questions bringing together different research approaches, integrating a variety of mobility analyses in different chronologies and regions. The session outcomes will be, first of all, an overview of current approaches to mobility in the archaeological study of territorial past dynamics; secondly the session aims to connect methods and theoretical approaches to mobility in archaeology developed for different chronological periods. In this sense the discussion will be useful for researches in different areas with different historical objectives but sharing common methodological issues. Finally, in all these ways, this session contributes to advances in the understanding of territorial formations through the study of human movement.
Keywords
Arcaheology. Landscape. Mobility.