Network Science in Archaeology - Tom Brughmans, Matthew A. Peeples

Network Science in Archaeology

Buch | Softcover
350 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-17064-2 (ISBN)
43,60 inkl. MwSt
This book covers a vast range of network science techniques that can enhance archaeological research: network data collection and management, exploratory network analysis, sampling issues and sensitivity analysis, spatial networks, and network visualisation. It will be a key educational resource students and teachers.
The Cambridge Manual to Archaeological Network Science provides the first comprehensive guide to a field of research that has firmly established itself within archaeological practice in recent years. Network science methods are commonly used to explore big archaeological datasets and are essential for the formal study of past relational phenomena: social networks, transport systems, communication, and exchange. The volume offers a step-by-step description of network science methods and explores its theoretical foundations and applications in archaeological research, which are elaborately illustrated with archaeological examples. It also covers a vast range of network science techniques that can enhance archaeological research, including network data collection and management, exploratory network analysis, sampling issues and sensitivity analysis, spatial networks, and network visualisation. An essential reference handbook for both beginning and experienced archaeological network researchers, the volume includes boxes with definitions, boxed examples, exercises, and online supplementary learning and teaching materials.

Tom Brughmans is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions, Aarhus University. His research explores how social networks connected people throughout history, how large integrated economies like the Roman Empire could function for centuries, and how expansive communication systems using fire and smoke signaling worked. Matthew A. Peeples is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Director of the Center for Archaeology and Society at Arizona State University. His research focuses on integrating archaeological data with methods and models from the broader social sciences to address questions regarding the nature of human social networks over the long term.

1. Introducing network science for archaeology; 2. Putting network science to work in archaeological research; 3. Network data; 4. Exploratory network analysis; 5. Quantifying uncertainty in archaeological networks; 6. Network visualisation; 7. Spatial networks and networks in space; 8. Uniting theory and method for archaeological network research; Appendix A: Answers for exercises; Appendix B: Software; Glossary.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 177 x 254 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Thermodynamik
ISBN-10 1-009-17064-3 / 1009170643
ISBN-13 978-1-009-17064-2 / 9781009170642
Zustand Neuware
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