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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Part I: Background 1: Introduction: why networks? Carl Knappett 2: John Edward Terrell: Social network analysis and the practice of history 3: Leif Isaksen: 'O what a tangled web we weave' - towards a practice that does not deceive Part II: Sites and Settlements 4: Søren Sindbæk: Broken links and black boxes: material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world 5: Jonathan B. Scholnick, Jessica L. Munson, and Martha J. Macri: 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: Koji Mizoguchi: Evolution of prestige good systems: an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media Part III: Material Culture 8: Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts, Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge and Ronald L. Breiger: The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest 9: Emma Blake: Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy 10: Anna Collar: Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis 11: Fiona Coward: 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: S. Colby Phillips and Erik Gjesfjeld: Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data: a case study from the Kuril Islands 13: Angus Mol and Jimmy Mans: Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean Part IV 14: Sander van der Leeuw: Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond ...
