Prehistoric Journeys

Vicki Cummings is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences, University of Central Lancashire where she specialises in the Mesolithic and Neolithic of Britain and Ireland, with a particular focus on monuments and landscape. She has a broader interest in hunting and gathering populations, interpretive archaeology and stone tools.

• Leaving place: an introduction to prehistoric journeys (Vicki Cummings and Robert Johnston)'Stretched thin, like butter on too much bread…': some thoughts about journeying in the unfamiliar landscapes of late Palaeolithic Southern Scandinavia (Felix Riede)On the trail of the Caribou hunters: archaeological surveys in Western Greenland (Ulla Odgaard)Stone age motion pictures: an object's perspective from early prehistoric Ireland (Thomas Kador)'It's 17km as the crow flies…': Neolithic journeys seen through the material at either end (Duncan Garrow)Megalithic journeys: moving around the monumental landscapes of Neolithic western Britain (Vicki Cummings)Monumental journeys: Neolithic monument complexes and routeways across Scotland (Gordon Noble)Ritual journeys and landscapes of the afterlife: a cognitive mapping approach to the Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts of the Ancient Egyptian afterlife (Peter Robinson)Journeying into different realms: travel, pilgrimage and rites of passage at Graig Lwyd (Bronwen Price)Short journeys, long distance thinking (John Roberts)Journeys through the seascapes of Scilly (Gary Robinson)Prehistoric sea journeys and port approaches: the south coast and Poole Harbour (Eileen Wilkes )Trackways, hooves and memory-days - human and animal movements and memories around the Iron Age and Romano-British rural landscapes of the English north midlands (Adrian M Chadwick)

If you thought that archaeologists had already packed a neat set of ideas about prehistoric movements into a conceptual suitcase that could be taken to any theoretical destination and hung up for use, then Prehistoric Journeys takes that pack out of your grasp as fast as any third-world baggage thief. blazes a trail that transcends received narrow notions of place, site, monument, and landscape.' -- The Oxford Art Journal The Oxford Art Journal