Apologies for cross-posting
Dear all,
Some of you might be interested in two archaeological network analysis events at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference in Hawaii in April 2013. The first is a paper session titled 'The Connected Past: critical and innovative approaches to networks in archaeology', held the evening of April 4, chaired by Tom Brughmans and Barbara Mills, with Ian Hodder as a discussant. The session abstract and the list of speakers can be found below, and the full abstracts of all papers can be found on The Connected Past website: http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/saa-2013/
Presentations:
Mark Golitko and Gary Feinman: Network analysis of Classic and Postclassic obsidian distribution in Mesoamerica.
Herb Maschner, Jennifer Dunne and Spencer Wood: Food-webs as network tools for investigating historic and prehistoric roles of humans as consumers in marine ecosystems.
Ethan Cochrane: Artifact Classification and Networks: A Case Study from the Southwest Pacific.
Shawn Graham: Reanimating Networks with Agent Modeling.
Barbara Mills, Matthew Peeples, Wm. R. Haas, Jr., Lewis Borck and Jeffery Clark: Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest.
Tom Brughmans and Simon Keay, Graeme Earl: Just points and lines? Exploratory network analysis from a Roman archaeology perspective.
Tim Kohler, Stefani Crabtree and Michael Berry: Secrets of the Southwest Solved by Walkative Tree Rings.
Angus Mol, Corinne Hofman and Menno Hoogland: Remotely Local: A network model of the 14th century settlement of Kelbey’s Ridge, Saba.
Fiona Coward: Getting to grips with the very earliest social networks: the challenges of using network methodologies to tackle Palaeolithic datasets.
Koji Mizoguchi: Prestige goods and social hierarchization revisited: A formal network approach to the hierarchization of intercommunal relations in the Middle Yayoi period in northern Kyushu, Japan.
The second event is a discussion forum moderated by Angus Mol titled 'Re-connecting the past: the future of social network analysis in archaeology' the afternoon of April 5.
We hope to see many of you there!
Tom Brughmans and Barbara Mills
& The Connected Past international steering committee
http://connectedpast.soton.ac.uk/
Session Abstract:
Over the last decade the number of published archaeological applications of network methods and theories has increased significantly. This session will build on this increasing interest in networks among archaeologists by highlighting a number of research themes that deserve further exploration. Firstly, it aims to illustrate how particular archaeological research contexts can drive the selection and adaptation of formal network methods from the wide range of existing approaches, where possible through interdisciplinary collaboration. Secondly, papers in this session will address the role archaeological data can play in network methods, the decisions we are faced with when defining nodes and ties, and how our theoretical approaches can be expressed through formal methods incorporating empirical data. Thirdly, the session will address the compatibility of network theories and methods. Lastly, the potential of incorporating materiality within existing network approaches and the study of long-term network evolution will be discussed.
This session will address these themes through methodological or theoretical papers, and will further illustrate the potential of a networks perspective for archaeology in a number of innovative case-studies. It hopes to illustrate that approaches with an interdisciplinary scope but dominated by archaeological research contexts yield the most critical and useful archaeological network studies.
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