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ecent years have brought a renewed interest in the topics of mobility
and movement in archaeology, as reflected in a number of publications
and conference topics covering several periods—for example, the
2012 Neolithic Studies Group Meeting titled ‘Movement and Mobility in
the Neolithic’, or the 2010 North American Theoretical Archaeology Group
session, ‘Archaeological Ambulations: Integrative approaches to movement’.
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The next six chapters are grouped together under the title of
‘people in motion’. The first two chapters in this section share the theme
of displacement due to war. The first (Chapter Six by Chieh-fu Jeff Cheng
and Ellen Hsieh) looks at Chinese colonies in Taiwan, while the second
(Chapter Seven by Mats Burström), examines those who left their homeland
of Estonia during the Second World War. Chapter Nine, by Sean Winter,
examines Australian penal colonies. Rather than considering isolated sites
he instead looks at the penal system as a network of movement, which
provides a framework to allow both similarities and differences to exist
between sites. Perhaps the biggest criticism of these three chapters is that the
theme of movement and mobility does not come across strongly: Chapter
Six in particular feels more like a gazetteer of the settlements rather than
a discussion of movement in archaeology. As such, they do not make a
strong contribution to the theoretical or methodological development of the
archaeology of mobility.
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