Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction

Introduction : why networks? / Carl Knappett -- Social network analysis and the practice of history / John Edward Terrell -- 'O what a tangled web we weave' : towards a practice that does not deceive / Leif Isaksen -- Broken links and black boxes : material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world / Søren M. Sindbæk -- Positioning power in a multi-relational framework : a social network analysis of classic Maya political rhetoric / Jonathan B. Scholnick, Jessica L. Munson, and Martha J. Macri -- What makes a site important? : centrality, gateways, and gravity / Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Tim Evans -- Evolution of prestige good systems : an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media / Koji Mizoguchi -- The dynamics of social networks in the late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest / Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge, and Ronald L. Breiger -- Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy / Emma Blake -- Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis / Anna Collar -- Grounding the net : social networks, material culture, and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (21-6,000 cal BCE) / Fiona Coward -- Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data : a case study from the Kuril Islands / Erik Gjesfjeld and S. Colby Phillips -- Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean / Angus Mol and Jimmy Mans -- Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond / Sander van der Leeuw