Mapping the Villagescape: An Archaeological Approach to Political Ecology Along the Falemme River, AD 1000–1900

Gokee, Cameron; Thiaw, Ibrahima

doi:10.1007/s10437-020-09375-w

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“…The process of 'becoming' is not merely accretionary or unidirectional, however, because both stasis and change encompass episodes of decline, stagnation and devolution as discerned in archaeological settlement research (e.g. Gokee and Thiaw 2020;Jing et al 2020; see also Flannery 1972, 421).…”

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The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies

Smith

2021

World Archaeology

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The site-size hierarchy concept enables researchers to transform archaeological survey data into political classifications. Yet everything about the site-size rubric is worth re-thinking, from the reliability of surface-survey data to the recognition that sites of all sizes act autonomously within territorial configurations. New ways can visualize and analyze the process whereby complex societies (chiefdoms and states) emerge through the materialized energies of constituent parts (cities, towns, resource zones, fortifications, frontiers) that ebb and flow through connections of trade, warfare, alliances, and migration characterized by multiple and overlapping dynamisms among human and non-human elements, and in which historical trajectories form the basis of memory and action. Five alternative ways of mapping and analyzing relationships among sites are offered, derived from biological models of individual and collective interaction: reticulated hierarchies, logic gates, cellular automata, recurrent connectivity, and firefly synchronicity.

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The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies

Smith

2021

World Archaeology

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“…Several of these have involved the use of high-resolution imagery to flag core settlement areas and related hinterlands based on the environmental impact of cultivation and activity on vegetative health. This ideally requires intensive field sampling of surface, archaeological and agricultural contexts as well as archaeological materials, and subsequent lab-based spectral analysis of samples to build a catalogue of multispectral signatures prior to remote sensing analysis (Gokee & Thiaw, 2020). Pawlowicz et al (2020) argue that the potential of remote sensing is only fully realised in combination with a significant quantity of background data to help delimit both remote and ground survey conditions, and on the availability of appropriate and sufficiently highresolution data.…”

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“…Several of these have involved the use of high‐resolution imagery to flag core settlement areas and related hinterlands based on the environmental impact of cultivation and activity on vegetative health. This ideally requires intensive field sampling of surface, archaeological and agricultural contexts as well as archaeological materials, and subsequent lab‐based spectral analysis of samples to build a catalogue of multispectral signatures prior to remote sensing analysis (Gokee & Thiaw, 2020).…”

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Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

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Lisowski

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Archaeological Prospection

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Spatial analysis is paramount for understanding, monitoring, and conserving ancient settlements and cultural landscapes. Advancing remote sensing and prospection techniques are expanding the methodological frame of archaeological settlement analysis by enabling remote, landscape-scale approaches to mapping and investigation. Whilst particularly effective in arid lands and areas with sparse or open ground cover, such as vegetation and buildings, these approaches remain peripheral in tropical environments because of technical and contextual challenges. In tropical Eastern Africa, for example, scales, resolution and visibility are often compromised by thick vegetation cover, inadequate access to, if not lack of, imagery resources and technologies, and the availability of comparative archaeological data for interpretation. This

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Mapping the Villagescape: An Archaeological Approach to Political Ecology Along the Falemme River, AD 1000–1900

Cited by 2 publications

References 58 publications

The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies

The process of complex societies: dynamic models beyond site-size hierarchies

Integrating spatial and legacy data to understand archaeological sites in their landscape. A case study from Unguja Ukuu, Zanzibar

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