Finding a Place for Networks in Archaeology

Peeples, Matthew A.

doi:10.1007/s10814-019-09127-8

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“…Although SNA has been in occasional use in North American archaeology for several decades to build understandings of social interactions (e.g., Peregrine 1991), its use has increased substantially over the past decade (e.g., Brughmans 2013; Mills 2017; Peeples 2019). Social network analyses utilize similarity coefficient matrices, which are often calculated from counts of artifact attributes or types; pottery is most frequently used in late prehistoric contexts in North America (e.g., Lulewicz 2019; Mills et al 2015), although other artifacts—such as shell gorgets (Lulewicz and Coker 2018), lithic technology (Rorabaugh 2019), and lithic raw materials (Hill et al 2020; Ladefoged et al 2019)—have been used there and elsewhere.…”

Section: Pottery Social Network Analysis and Village Sequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

Birch¹,

Hart

2021

Am. Antiq.

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We employ social network analysis of collar decoration on Iroquoian vessels to conduct a multiscalar analysis of signaling practices among ancestral Huron-Wendat communities on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Our analysis focuses on the microscale of the West Duffins Creek community relocation sequence as well as the mesoscale, incorporating several populations to the west. The data demonstrate that network ties were stronger among populations in adjacent drainages as opposed to within drainage-specific sequences, providing evidence for west-to-east population movement, especially as conflict between Wendat and Haudenosaunee populations escalated in the sixteenth century. These results suggest that although coalescence may have initially involved the incorporation of peoples from microscale (local) networks, populations originating among wider mesoscale (subregional) networks contributed to later coalescent communities. These findings challenge previous models of village relocation and settlement aggregation that oversimplified these processes.

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Section: Pottery Social Network Analysis and Village Sequencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

Birch¹,

Hart

2021

Am. Antiq.

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“…2019; Parcak 2019); a surge in agent‐based modeling, network analysis, and computer simulations (e.g., Romanowska et al. 2019; Peeples 2019; Saqalli and Vander Linden 2019); breakthroughs in genomic aDNA studies (Downes 2019; Feldman et al. 2019; Jensen et al.…”

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Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

Rosenzweig

2020

American Anthropologist

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Postmodernity has a distinctly pre‐apocalyptic feel to it, and this feeling has seeped into archaeology. A review of the scholarship from 2019 attests that archaeologists are having to reckon with present‐day conditions and phenomena as they structure their research, delineate the material world, and affirm archaeology's relevance. Furthermore, these concerns have moved from the realm of the rarely spoken and come to constitute a critical conversation in the field. In a number of respects, the contours of archaeology now hinge upon the discipline's responses to developments in real time, including: How can archaeological knowledge production escape the logistical and epistemological bounds of late capitalism and its failures? Can archaeology contribute to future‐building, and what would that look like? Does archaeology have to be scholar‐activism to achieve the goal of making the past matter (to whom) (for what)? [archaeology, contemporary archaeology, future archaeology, current issues]

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“…Canoe route-modelling and least-cost pathway analyses were used to evaluate connections between the islands and the mainland of South America, an important source area for peoples and materials in the (early) colonial period. Network analysis, which has gained prominence in archaeology as a method for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing relational and spatial data in new ways (Borck 2018; Borck et al 2015;Brughmans et al 2017;Crabtree and Borck 2019;Mills 2017;Mol, Hoogland, and Hofman 2015;Peeples 2019), was used to parse the complex relationship between people, material culture, and social relationships under the violent oppression of colonization and the Trans-Atlantic African Slave trade. These diverse approaches reveal and then explore multi-layered networks, both formal and informal, of objects and people and uncover how Lesser Antillean communities were created and transformed through teaching, trade, migration, movement, and exchange of goods and knowledge.…”

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Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism

Hofman

Borck

Laffoon

et al. 2020

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colonial powers. This article summarizes the results of the Island Network project, supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in which a multidisciplinary set of archaeological, archaeometric, geochemical, GIS, and network science methods and techniques have been employed to disentangle this turbulent era in regional and global history. These diverse approaches reveal and then explore multi-layered networks of objects and people and uncover how Lesser Antillean communities were created and transformed through teaching, trade, migration, movement, and exchange of goods and knowledge.

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Finding a Place for Networks in Archaeology

Cited by 57 publications

References 172 publications

Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

Conflict, Population Movement, and Microscale Social Networks in Northern Iroquoian Archaeology

Confronting the Present: Archaeology in 2019

Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism

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