Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archaeology through an up-to-date overview of the field.
1: Matthew A. Peeples, Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, and Tom Brughmans: Introduction Part I: Archaeological Networks in Practice 2: Clara Filet and Fabrice Rossi: Network Methods and Properties 3: Matthew A. Peeples, John M. Roberts, Jr, and Yi Yin: Challenges for Network Research in Archaeology 4: Benjamin Bach and Mereke van Garderen: Beyond the Node-Link Diagram: A Fast Forward about Network Visualization for Archaeology 5: Per Östborn and Henrik Gerding: Inference from Archaeological Similarity Networks Part II: Material Culture Networks 6: Jennifer Birch: Material Networks and Culture Change 7: Elliot H. Blair: Material Culture Similarity and Co-occurrence Networks 8: Daniel Sosna: Mortuary Archaeology Networks 9: Mark Golitko: Geochemical Networks 10: Sarah M. Griffin and Florian Klimm: Networks and Museum Collections Part III: Geographical Networks 11: Diego Jiménez-Badillo: Nearest and Relative Neighbourhood Networks 12: Ray Rivers, Tim Evans, and Eleftheria Paliou: Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models 13: Irmela Herzog: Transportation Networks and Least-Cost Paths 14: Mu-Chun Wu: Space Syntax and Pedestrian Modelling 15: Zoran %Cu%ckovi'c: Visibility Networks 16: Eduardo Apolinaire and Laura Bastourre: Hydrographic Networks Part IV: Network Simulation 17: Iza Romanowska: Complexity Science and Networks in Archaeology 18: Wendy H. Cegielski: Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and Archaeology 19: Viviana Amati: Random Graph Models Part V: Biological Networks 20: Kent M. Johnson: Biodistance Networks 21: Stefani A. Crabtree and Jennifer A. Dunne: Food Webs Part VI: Text-Based Networks 22: Claire Lemercier: Historical and Archaeological Network Data 23: Diane Harris Cline and Jessica Munson: Epigraphic Networks in Cross-Cultural Perspective 24: Valeria Vitale and Rainer Simon: Linked Data Networks: How, Why and When to Apply Network Analysis to LOD 25: Allison Mickel, Anthony Sinclair, and Tom Brughmans: Knowledge Networks 26: Vojt%ech Ka%se, Tomá%s Glomb, and Jan Fousek: Networks and Religious Transformations Part VII: Cultural Transmission and Human Evolution 27: Valéria Romano and Sergi Lozano: Perspectives on Human Behavioural Evolution from Primate Networks 28: Claudine Gravel-Miguel, and Fiona Coward: Palaeolithic Social Networks and Behavioural Modernity 29: Briggs Buchanan and Marcus J. Hamilton: Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Part VIII: Movement, Exchange, and Flows through Networks 30: Justin Leidwanger: Maritime Networks 31: Barbara J. Mills and Matthew A. Peeples: Migration and Archaeological Network Research 32: Marek Vlach: Network Modelling of the Spread of Disease 33: Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer: The Antiquities Trade and Digital Networks: Or, the Supercharging Effect of Social Media on the Rise of the Amateur Antiquities Trader Part IX: Assessing the Structural Characteristics of Networks 34: Matthew Pailes: Social Networks and Inequality 35: Erik Gjesfjeld: Networks and Catastrophes 36: Jelena Gruji'c and Miljana Radivojevi'c: Community Detection 37: Scott G. Ortman: Settlement Scaling Analysis as Social Network Analysis 38: Jacob Holland-Lulewicz: Networks and Sociopolitical Organization Part X: Looking Ahead and Beyond 39: Ulrik Brandes: Archaeological Network Science 40: John Edward Terrell: Network Models and the Past: Relational Thinking and Contingency Analysis 41: Carl Knappett and Angus Mol: Network Epistemologies in Archaeology 42: Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, Tom Brughmans, and Matthew A. Peeples: Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research
Tom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University's Classical Archaeology and Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet). His research interests include the study of past social networks, Roman ceramics, citation networks and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science, agent-based simulation and geographical information systems. He leads the Past Social Networks Project, which aims to encourage the open publication and reuse of past social network data, through developing a dedicated repository and metadata standards. Barbara J. Mills is Regents Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. She has edited or authored eight books and monographs, and dozens of articles and chapters in books, including ""The Establishment and Defeat of Hierarchy: Inalienable Possessions and the History of Collective Prestige Structures in the Puebloan Southwest"" (2004, American Anthropologist), winner of the Gordon Willey Award. Jessica Munson is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Lycoming College. Her research combines archaeological fieldwork with quantitative studies of settlement patterns, household possessions, and hieroglyphic inscriptions to investigate the long-term dynamics of sociopolitical systems and spread of cultural innovations across the Maya lowlands. She is also director of the Proyecto Arqueológico Altar de Sacrificios (PAALS), a multidisciplinary project that combines regional survey, household excavations, and paleoenvironmental studies to examine the diverse factors that contributed to the development of inequality and socioeconomic difference in ancient Maya society. Matthew A. Peeples Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and Director of the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society. His research is focused on using network methods and models with archaeological data to address questions revolving around the nature of regional scale social networks over the long-term in the ancient US Southwest and Mexican Northwest. He serves as co-PI of cyberSW, a cyberinfrastructure project focused on providing archaeological data and open-access tools to analyze them to facilitate interdisciplinary social science research in the US Southwest.
