Mobility, Migration, and Colonization

Abstract

There is a myriad of reasons why people choose to move, and social and ideological factors are equally as important as economic ones. Very often, diverse processes - trade, elite exchange, and different forms of human mobility, including both seasonal and permanent movements - can create similar material patterning. This chapter focuses on migration, mobility, and colonization. Migration tends to be classified as relocation across social, environmental, or cultural boundaries with the purpose of settling either permanently or at least for an extended period of time. Greek literature often describes the colonization of the 8th to 6th centuries in much more detail than the assumed migrations of earlier times. Emphasis on mobility has also eroded traditional conceptualizations over Greek colonization, including the previously assumed sharp contrasts between: Greek colonization and earlier migrations; and the Greek and Phoenician models of colonization.

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