Network analysis in archaeology : new approaches to regional interaction /

Network analysis in archaeology : new approaches to regional interaction / edited by Carl Knappett - 1. ed 1. ed - illustrations, maps -

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : why networks? / Carl Knappett -- Social network analysis and the practice of history / John Edward Terrell -- 'O what a tangled web we weave' : towards a practice that does not deceive / Leif Isaksen -- Broken links and black boxes : material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world / Søren M. Sindbæk -- Positioning power in a multi-relational framework : a social network analysis of classic Maya political rhetoric / Jonathan B. Scholnick, Jessica L. Munson, and Martha J. Macri -- What makes a site important? : centrality, gateways, and gravity / Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Tim Evans -- Evolution of prestige good systems : an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media / Koji Mizoguchi -- The dynamics of social networks in the late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest / Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge, and Ronald L. Breiger -- Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy / Emma Blake -- Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis / Anna Collar -- Grounding the net : social networks, material culture, and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (̃21-6,000 cal BCE) / Fiona Coward -- Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data : a case study from the Kuril Islands / Erik Gjesfjeld and S. Colby Phillips -- Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean / Angus Mol and Jimmy Mans -- Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond / Sander van der Leeuw

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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

0191626120 (electronic bk.) 9780191626128 (electronic bk.)


Archaeology--Methodology.
Social sciences--Network analysis.

CC75.7 / .N48 2013

930.102