Description: "This open-access volume uses archaeological case studies mainly from the European Neolithic, but also from the Pacific, the US Southwest, the medieval Migration Period and the historical Great Lakes, to discuss how a focus on small-scale inter-personal relations can help us understand migration events in archaeology. While most scholarship focuses on migrations that took place (using isotopes and aDNA), this book offers a new approach by exploring ideas about why they happened. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Advanced Studies in Oslo"--
Brief description: Niels Nørkjær Johannsen is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Aarhus University, Denmark. His main research focus is on the Neolithic of northern and central Europe. He has published on cognitive approaches to material culture and on the development and impact of wheeled vehicle technology in prehistoric Europe.
Review Quotes: "This book exploits the improved level of genetic resolution we have achieved by providing new archaeological and anthropological interpretations with a global perspective." --Kristian Kristiansen, Professor of Archaeology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and University of Copenhagen, Denmark