Challenging Frontiers

The Conference aims to address the question of mobility in the archaeological record. The physical remains of the past are fixed in archaeological contexts. However, these remains are not the product of a static environment but of change, mobility and transition. Many differing mobility centred concepts are deeply embedded into archaeological thought and interpretations. It is these aspects of the past which, despite being elusive, are crucial to our understanding of change in societies and groups over time. This conference is interested in all the diverse concepts of mobility used in study of the past, material culture, people, ideas and society, timing and scale, landscapes and the environment. In particular, it will focus on the different ways in which we reconstruct these concepts into explanations for cultural changes, past populations, events and social interactions.

The programme and abstracts have been formalised and are now up on the website : (http://graduatearchaeologyoxford.co.uk/conferences.html)