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

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 …

North American archaeologists must reconsider their implicit adherence to the culture history
paradigm. The long-standing role of this approach to situate archaeological remains in …

For 40 years, political collapse has been increasingly prominent in anthropological
archaeology. Throughout that period, scholars have grappled with defining collapse and …

Archaeologists have regarded social networks as both the links through which people
transmitted information and goods as well as a form of social storage creating relationships …

That social networks play a central role in religious life is well accepted by most social
scientists. We are reasonably confident, for instance, that they are crucial for the recruitment …

I discuss two key issues for the analysis of early urban settlements: definitions, and
comparative analysis. There is no 'best'definition of terms like city or urban. These are not …

In recent years, the purpose and objectives of ethnoarchaeology have been called into
question. In this paper, we propose that ethnoarchaeology might best be considered a form …

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a
new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of …

In this paper, we describe the development and state of archaeological surface survey in the
Mediterranean. We focus especially on surface survey as a means of documenting long …