Landscapes of Movement originates from the premise that trails paths and roads are the physical manifestation of human movement through the landscape and are central to an understanding of that movement. The study of these features connects with many intellectual domains engaging history geography environmental studies and in particular anthropology and archaeology. These diverse fields together provide not only a better understanding of infrastructure but also of social political and economic organization cultural expressions of patterned movement and the ways in which trails paths and roads reflect a culture s traditional knowledge worldview memory and identity. The contributors to Landscapes of Movement document these routes across different times and cultures from those made by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North America to causeways in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age towns in the Near East examined through aerial and satellite photography surface survey historic records and archaeological excavation. The essays consider many factors in the development and use of trails paths and roads including labor technology terrain characteristics landscape features access and ownership. Diverse scales of movement are also addressed ranging from paths between home and fields to roads used for long-distance journeying. Overall the book makes the case for the centrality of paths trails and roads as an organizing element of human lives throughout history. PMIRC volume 1