Network Analysis in Archaeology

<br>Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he is Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (2011), Thinking Through MaterialCulture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, the latter coedited with Lambros Malafouris.<br>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PART I: BACKGROUND; 1. Introduction: why networks? Carl Knappett; 2. Social network analysis and the practice of history; 3. 'O what a tangled web we weave' - towards a practice that does not deceive; PART II: SITES AND SETTLEMENTS; 4. Broken links and black boxes: material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world; 5. Positioning power in a multi-relational framework: a social network analysis of Classic Maya political rhetoric; 6. What makes a site important? Centrality, gateways and gravity; 7. Evolution of prestige good systems: an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media; PART III: MATERIAL CULTURE; 8. The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest; 9. Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy; 10. Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis; 11. Grounding the net: social networks, material culture and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (~21-6,000 cal BCE); 12. Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data: a case study from the Kuril Islands; 13. Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean; PART IV; 14. Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond