Conference Presentations: The Connected Past

The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History

A collaborative, multi-disciplinary symposium
University of Southampton
24-25 March 2012
Held the two days prior to CAA 2012 at the same venue.

Sponsored by Archaeopress, The Classical Association, the Archaeological Computing Research Group, Oxford University Press, the University of Southampton USRG Complexity in Real-world Contexts, the University of Southampton Web Science DTC and the University of Southampton Faculty of Humanities

Recorded presentations
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Saturday 24 March
Introductions
First keynote
Alex Bentley
“Networks, complexity and the archaeology of complex social systems”
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First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Tom Brughmans
“Networks of networks: A critical review of formal network methods in archaeology through citation network analysis and close reading”
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Johannes Preiser-Kapeller
“Luhmann in Byzantium. A systems theory approach for historical network analysis”
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Andrew Bevan
“When nodes and edges dissolve. Incorporating geographic uncertainty into the analysis of settlement interactions”
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First session: Theoretical and methodological concerns
Astrid Van Oyen
“Actors as networks? How to make Actor-Network-Theory work for archaeology: on the reality of categories in the production of Roman terra sigillata”
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Søren Sindbæk
“Contextual network synthesis: Reading communication in archaeology”
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Marten Düring
“How reliable are centrality and clustering measures for data collected from fragmentary and heterogenuous historical sources? A case study”
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Second session: Big data and archaeology
Barbara Mills et al.
“Dynamic Network Analysis: Stability and Collapse in U.S. Southwest, A.D. 1200-1500″
Caroline Waerzeggers
“Networks in Babylonia: social complexity and cuneiform data”
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Mark Depauw and Bart Van Beek
“Authority and Social Interaction in Graeco‐Roman Egypt”
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Second session: Big data and archaeology
Eivind Heldaas Seland
“Travel and religion in late antiquity”
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Alessandro Quercia and Lin Foxhall
“Weaving networks in pre-Roman South Italy. Using loom weight data to understand complex relationships and social identities”
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Angus Mol and Corinne Hofman
“Networks Set in Stone: Lithic production and exchange in the early prehistoric northeastern Caribbean”
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Craig Alexander
“Networks and intervisibility: a study of Iron Age Valcamonica”
Second keynote
Carl Knappett
Networks of Objects, Meshworks of Things”

Sunday 25 March
Third keynote
Irad Malkin
“The Spatial Turn, Network Theory, and the Archaic Greek World”
Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Ray Rivers
“‪Can we always get what we want?”
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Anne Kandler and Fabio Caccioli
“The effects of network structure on cultural change”
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Qiming Lv, Caitlin Buck et al.
“Network-based spatial-temporal modelling of the first arrival of prehistoric agriculture”
Third session: Dynamic networks and modelling
Tim Evans
“Which Network Model Should I Use? A Quantitative Comparison of Spatial Network Models in Archaeology”
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Juan A. Barceló et al.
“Simulating the Emergence of Social Networks of Restricted Cooperation in Prehistory. A Bayesian network approach”
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Marco Büchler
“Generation of Text Graphs and Text Re-use Graphs from Massive Digital Data”
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Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Wilko Schroeter
“The social marriage network of Europe’s ruling families from 1600-1900″
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Ekaterini Mitsiou
“Networks of state building: State collapses and aristocratic networks in the 13th century Eastern Mediterranean”
Evi Gorogianni
“Marrying out: a consideration of cultural exogamy and its implications on material culture”
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Fourth session: Personal, political and migration networks
Elena Isayev
“Edging beyond the shore: Questioning Polybius’s view of Rome and Italy at the dawn of the ‘global moment’ of the 2nd century BC”
Claire Lemercier and Paul-André Rosental
“Networks in time and space. The structure and dynamics of migration in 19th-century Northern France”
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Amara Thornton
“Reconstructing Networks in the History of Archaeology”
Katherine Larson
“Sign Here: Tracing Spatial and Social Networks of Hellenistic Sculptors”
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