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'Lucid, poetic and fascinating' ALICE ROBERTS. 'Engaging, authoritative and full of fascinating stories of the past' RAY MEARS. 'A gentle, personal and very readable book' JULIA BLACKBURN AUTHOR OF TIME SONG. 'A triumph!' JAMES CANTON, AUTHOR OF THE OAK PAPERS. 'I loved this book' FRANCIS PRYOR, AUTHOR OF STONEHENGE. On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archaeologists have in fact always found evidence for humanity's irrepressible restlessness. Now, latest developments in science and archaeology are transforming this evidence and overturning how we understand the past movement of humankind.. In this book, archaeologist Jim Leary traces the past 3.