Network Analysis in Archaeology

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction: why networks? Carl Knappett2 - Social network analysis and the practice of history3 - 'O what a tangled web we weave' - towards a practice that does not deceive4 - Broken links and black boxes: material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world5 - Positioning power in a multi-relational framework: a social network analysis of Classic Maya political rhetoric6 - What makes a site important? Centrality, gateways and gravity7 - Evolution of prestige good systems: an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media8 - The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest9 - Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy10 - Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis11 - Grounding the net: social networks, material culture and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (~21-6,000 cal BCE)12 - Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data: a case study from the Kuril Islands13 - Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean14 - Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond

AUTORE

Professor Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he is Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (2011), Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, the latter coedited with Lambros Malafouris.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199697090
• Dimensioni: 240 x 23.5 x 162 mm Ø 792 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 72 in text figures
• Pagine Arabe: 372