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 …

Social network analysis (SNA) in archaeology has become important for a range of
theoretical and methodological approaches that can more generally be characterized as …

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 …

Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

The popular notion of social collapse consequent on natural catastrophe is here elegantly
disentangled in a study of the dark summer of AD 536. Leaving aside the question of its …

This chapter presents and discusses current approaches and trends in computer-based
modelling of pathways and movement networks in archaeology. After an introduction to the …

This paper provides an up-to-date history of archaeological computer simulation, starting
with the early 1970s simulation models, but paying particular attention to those developed …

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 …

The modelling of past settlement and landscape structure from incomplete evidence is a well-
established archaeological agenda. This paper highlights a model of spatial interaction and …

This book takes an innovative approach to detecting regional groupings in peninsular Italy
during the Late Bronze Age, a notoriously murky period of Italian prehistory. Applying social …