Objectscapes: a manifesto for investigating the impacts of object flows on past societies

World history is often framed in terms of flows people: humans coming ‘out Africa’, the spread farmers Holocene, disruptions ‘Sea Peoples’, or ‘colonisation’ by Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. In this article, authors argue that world also about objects. To illuminate impacts objects on past societies, they introduce concept ‘objectscapes’ as a means writing new kinds histories human-thing entanglements, which motion have roles to play—beyond representation—over both short long term. illustrate, present examples from two regions at end first millennium BC: southern Germany northern Syria.