Network Analysis in Archaeology New Approaches to Regional Interaction 1st Edition by Carl Knappett 9780199697090 0199697094

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ISBN 10: 0199697094

ISBN 13: 9780199697090

Author: Carl Knappett

While the study of networks has grown exponentially in the past decade and is now having an impact on how archaeologists study ancient societies, its emergence in the field has been dislocated. This volume provides a coherent framework on network analysis in current archaeological practice by pulling together its main themes and approaches to show how it is changing the way archaeologists face the key questions of regional interaction. Working with the term ‘network’ as a collection of nodes and links, as used in network science and social network analysis, it juxtaposes a range of case studies and investigates the positives and negatives of network analysis. With contributions by leading experts in the field, the volume covers a broad range: from Japan to America, from the Palaeolithic to the Precolumbian.

Table of contents:

Part I: Background

1. Introduction: why networks?

2. Social network analysis and the practice of history

3. ‘O what a tangled web we weave’—towards a practice that does not deceive

Part II: Sites and Settlements

4. Broken links and black boxes: material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Vikin

5. Positioning power in a multi-relational framework: a social network analysis of Classic Maya poli

6. What makes a site important? Centrality, gateways, and gravity

7. Evolution of prestige good systems: an application of network analysis to the transformation of c

Part III: Material Culture

8. The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic US Southwest

9. Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy

10. Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis

11. Grounding the net: social networks, material culture, and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and e

12. Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data: a case study from the Kur

13. Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean

Part IV

14. Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond

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