Theoretical developments in Anglophone archaeology since the 1960s have been accused
of being “immobilist”(Hawkes 1987: 203) or “anti-migrationist”(H�rke 1998: 19). New�…

Migration is a key concept in archaeology. It is a common explanation for the distribution and
diffusion of cultural traits. However, it is more often an axiomatic postulate than the result of�…

A close look at the attitudes of Anglophone and German archaeologists towards the
question of migrations suggests that they have been shaped by factors which have more to�…

After a lengthy period of time in which migrations have been out of fashion in archaeological
literature they have suddenly come to life again. Kristian Kristiansen (1991) and David�…

Even if archaeological explanations and theoretical interests have shied away from
migration with the advent of the New, Processual and Post-Processual archaeologies, the�…

For more than a century, anthropologists have been pursuing “migration” as a topic of
inquiry: if people moved from one area to another at some point in prehistory, did that�…

Migration is frequently invoked as an explanation for pattern in paleolithic archaeology but
the credibility of doing so depends almost exclusively upon acceptance of an analogy�…

A clear deficit in the theoretical and methodological development of archaeological research
exists with regard to migration; attributing archaeological distribution patterns to migration as�…

These three books are about as different as scholarly books sharing common themes can
be; but, given their subject matter, it is no coincidence that they all link the issues of�…

Migration has been largely ignored by archeologists for the last two decades. Yet prehistoric
demography and population studies are accepted as central concerns, and neither of these�…