To be published in Aerial Archaeology and Remote Sensing in Carpathian basin. Selected Papers of the AARG Annual Conference, held in Budapest, 15-18 September, 2012 Please do not cite without permission. Roads to nowhere? Disentangling mesh- works of holloways Dimitrij Mlekuž University of Ljubljana and Institute for the protection of the cultural heritage of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia dmlekuz@gmail.com Keywords: landscape, movement, mobility, holloways, paths, traces, meshwork, lidar Introduction Lidar reveals landscapes previously hidden below a woodland canopy in amazing clarity. One of the most ubiquitous features of the woodland floor are holloways or sunken lanes. Despite their ubiquity there has been surprisingly little done with them. Holloways are usually treated as primitive communications, a first, muddy step toward the developed road system (see MUIR 2000, 94-99; HINDLE 2001, 1-11). In this paper I want to develop an argument that holloways are rather something different. Holloways are about the movement in the mutual constitutions of movement and land- scapes. They can teach us how landscapes are always in the process of becoming, made and remade through movement of people, material culture, substances... Movement is a material practice that constantly creates new relations between things. In this way, hollo- ways, as a material traces of past movement, have the power move us, landscape archae- ologists, around the landscape, helping us to weave and re-make past landscapes. The recent rise of mobility studies in sociology, geography and other social sciences… is about incorporating concerns of movement into a broader discourses (see SHELER – URRY 2006; URRY 2007; HANNAM et al. 2006). Archaeology should and be immune to these con- cerns (see ALDRED – SEKEDAT 2010, 2011A, 2011B, 2011C). How did people in past land- scapes move? How did this movement mutually constituted people who moved and land- scapes? How do landscapes move us? From the perspective of mobility, landscapes, places but also bodies and things can under- stood as a product of practices, trajectories, interrelations and flows realised through