Beyond migration and diffusion: The prehistoric mobility of people & ideas

该项目计划在考古学家和地球化学家目前合作的基础上，提出关于史前人类活动和思想的新问题。该项目计划研究人口流动的空间和时间模式，以澄清它们与新的和外来材料、技术和做法的出现的关系。该项目侧重于个人和群体的流动既是社会文化变革的煽动者又是对社会文化变革的回应的方式，使用欧洲和太平洋岛屿的关键实例，帮助建立一种与创新和采用的一般理论相关的快速社会和经济变革现象的比较考古学。

The project plans to build on the strength of current collaborations between archaeologists and geochemists to ask novel questions about the movement of people and ideas in prehistory. The project plans to examine spatial and temporal patterns in population mobility to clarify their relationship with the appearance of new and exotic materials, technologies and practices. The project focuses on the ways in which the movement of individuals and groups of people is both an instigator and a response to sociocultural change, using both key European and Pacific Island examples, to help build a comparative archaeology of phenomena of rapid social and economic change, with pertinence to general theories of innovation and adoption.