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2 - Putting Network Science to Work in Archaeological Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2023

Tom Brughmans  and
Matthew A. Peeples
Tom Brughmans
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Matthew A. Peeples
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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Summary

The purpose of this chapter is to give you the basic lay of the land in the world of archaeological network research in order to provide context for the remainder of the book. As we saw in Chapter 1, although archaeologists have applied graph-theoretic and network analytic methods toward archaeological questions for more than 50 years, it is really only in the last 10 years or so that such approaches have become common. Archaeological network science is still quite a young subdiscipline and is constantly changing. There are likely to be some “growing pains” as we all figure out how to best adopt, adapt, and develop network methods appropriate for archaeological data and archaeological questions. This is perhaps not too different from where specializations like GIS were in archaeology 15–20 years ago (see Connolly and Lake 2006; Wheatley and Gillings 2002).

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Network Science in Archaeology , pp. 26 - 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Introductions to all of the types of archaeological networks featured above and many more can be found in the following handbook.

The following edited volumes and special issues provide many applied examples of archaeological network research in a diverse range of research contexts.

Brughmans, Tom, Mills, Barbara J., Munson, Jessica L., and Peeples, Matthew A. (editors) 2023 The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Brughmans, Tom, Collar, Anna, and Coward, Fiona 2016 The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History. Oxford University Press, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collar, Anna, Brughmans, Tom, and Mills, Barbara J. (editors) 2015 The Connected Past: Critical and Innovative Approaches to Networks in Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(1).Google Scholar
Knappett, Carl 2013 Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Brughmans, Tom, Mills, Barbara J., Munson, Jessica L., and Peeples, Matthew A. (editors) 2023 The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Brughmans, Tom, Collar, Anna, and Coward, Fiona 2016 The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History. Oxford University Press, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collar, Anna, Brughmans, Tom, and Mills, Barbara J. (editors) 2015 The Connected Past: Critical and Innovative Approaches to Networks in Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(1).Google Scholar
Knappett, Carl 2013 Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Brughmans, Tom, Mills, Barbara J., Munson, Jessica L., and Peeples, Matthew A. (editors) 2023 The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
Brughmans, Tom, Collar, Anna, and Coward, Fiona 2016 The Connected Past: Challenges to Network Studies in Archaeology and History. Oxford University Press, Oxford.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Collar, Anna, Brughmans, Tom, and Mills, Barbara J. (editors) 2015 The Connected Past: Critical and Innovative Approaches to Networks in Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 22(1).Google Scholar
Knappett, Carl 2013 Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction. Oxford University Press, Oxford.Google Scholar

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