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Record Nr.

UNISA996202751303316

Titolo

Network analysis in archaeology [[electronic resource] ] : new approaches to regional interaction / / edited by Carl Knappett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-299-45396-1

0-19-162612-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KnappettCarl

Disciplina

930.1028

Soggetti

Archaeology - Data processing

System analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""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 Viking world""; ""5. Positioning power in a multi-relational framework: a social network analysis of Classic Maya political rhetoric""

""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 communication systems and their media""; ""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 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 Islands""; ""13. Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean""; ""Part IV""; ""14. Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K"";



""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""

Sommario/riassunto

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.