A diachronic perspective on lithic raw material procurement strategies and mobility: case studies from the Final Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic in Central Europe

Not going anywhere? Migration as a social practice in the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik

“…As indigenous hunter-gatherers are unlikely to have swelled the ranks of early farming communities -rather, they may have continued to exist in enclaves alongside (see e.g. recent summaries in Gehlen et al 2017;Hofmann 2015) -the rapidity of the spread is all the more remarkable. Clearly, there were motivations in place for moving, as well as the technical and social means to support these ventures, and migration was not only a viable, but also a sought-after choice.…”