The Cambridge Manual to Archaeological Network Science provides the first
comprehensive guide to a field of research that has firmly established itself within …

Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology,
used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements …

The application of method and theory from network science to archaeology has dramatically
increased over the last decade. In this article, we document this growth over time, discuss …

While the study of networks has grown exponentially in the past decade and is now having
an impact on how archaeologists study ancient societies, its emergence in the field has …

Formal network analyses have a long history in archaeology but have recently seen a rapid
florescence. Network models drawing on approaches from graph theory, social network …

Archaeological network analysis has experienced something of a minor boom of late and
this cannot entirely be put down to the 'social network revolution'post-2000. A number of …

This review aims to expose the potential of formal network methods for archaeology by
tracing the origins of the academic traditions, network models, and techniques that have …

One of the most exciting recent developments in archaeology and history has been the
adoption of new perspectives which see human societies in the past-as in the present-as …

Long-distance communication has emerged as a particular focus for archaeological
exploration using network theory, analysis, and modelling. The promise is apparently …

This chapter traces how network concepts developed from spatial metaphors to tools used
by sociologists and anthropologists to visualise and analyse social relations. The first …