The significance of local spatial choices and memory and their impact on mobility networks is scarcely recognised in Mongolian archaeology. Here, we present a mapping strategy aimed at disentangling the landscapes of movement and investigating the materiality that accumulated in the palimpsest of the Ikh Bogd Uul Mountain (Bayankhongor, Mongolia).

Based on an integrated and diachronic approach, our analysis encompasses a variety of strategies and sources: satellite imagery and historical cartography, a rescaling of the research area and path-centered fieldwork, which we conceptualize as 'linear’ survey. We document Late Prehistoric mounds as well as ‘modern’ springs, pastoral campsites, and paths. They are interpreted as landscape-objects associated with persistent mobility patterns and the construction of local knowledge and identity – in the sense of a nutag or homeland.

This study thus contributes to expanding the archaeological information available for a remote and scarcely investigated area and enriching the archaeological approach to a complex and highly mobile context over time. It also offers new insights into how ancient mobility contributed to shaping the local landscapes of movement, both in terms of seasonal pastoral shifts and long-distance networks in the Mongolian and Central Eurasian Late Prehistory and afterwards.

当地空间选择和记忆的重要性及其对移动网络的影响在蒙古考古学中鲜为人知。在这里，我们提出了一种制图策略，旨在解开运动景观并调查在 Ikh Bogd Uul 山（蒙古巴彦洪戈尔）最重写本中积累的物质性。

基于综合和历时的方法，我们的分析包含各种策略和来源：卫星图像和历史制图、研究区域的重新缩放和以路径为中心的实地调查，我们将其概念化为“线性”调查。我们记录了史前晚期的土墩以及“现代”泉水、田园营地和小径。它们被解释为与持续的流动模式以及当地知识和身份的构建相关的景观对象——在nutag或家园的意义上。

因此，这项研究有助于扩大可用于偏远且几乎没有调查的地区的考古信息，并随着时间的推移丰富考古学方法以适应复杂且高度流动的环境。它还提供了关于古代流动性如何影响塑造当地运动景观的新见解，包括蒙古和欧亚大陆晚期史前史及之后的季节性牧区转移和长途网络。