This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science. It focuses on the continuing importance of spatial and spatio-temporal pattern recognition in the archaeological record, considers more wholly model-based approaches that fix ideas and build theory, and addresses those applications where situated human experience and perception are a core interest. Reflecting the changes in computational technology over the past decade, the authors bring in examples from historic and prehistoric sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to demonstrate the variety of applications available to the contemporary researcher.
This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.
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1 Introduction, Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake |
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2 Intensities, Interactions, and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions, Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li, and Alessio Palmisano |
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3 An Examination of Automated Archaeological Feature Recognition in Remotely Sensed Imagery, Kenneth Kvamme |
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4 An Introduction to Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), Terence Clark |
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5 Network Models and Archaeological Spaces, Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Timothy Evans |
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6 Multilevel Selection and the Evolution of Food Sharing in Fragmented Environments: A Spatially Explicit Model and Its Implications for Early Stone Age Behavior, L. S. Premo |
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7 Stories of the Past or Science of the Future? Archaeology and Computational Social Science, Michael Barton |
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8 The Potential and Limits of Optimal Path Analysis, Irmela Herzog |
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9 Compute-Intensive GIS Visibility Analysis of the Settings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Mark Lake and Damon Ortega |
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10 Reconsidering the Concept of Visualscape: Recent Advances in Three-Dimensional Visibility Analysis, Eleftheria Paliou |
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11 Formal and Informal Analysis of Rendered Space: The Basilica Portuense, Graeme Earl, Vito Porcelli, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Gareth Beale, Matthew Harrison, Hembo Pagi, and Simon Keay |
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12 Reproducible Data Analysis and the Open Source Paradigm in Archaeology, Benjamin Ducke |
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| About the Editors/Contributors |
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Andrew Bevan is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. He has active research interests in the social construction of value across widely ranging time periods and cultural contexts, with a particular focus on early societies in the Middle East and Mediterranean. He is author of Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2007). Mark Lake is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK and coordinator of the graduate programme in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology there. A specialist in GIS and computer simulation, he studies patterning in prehistoric field systems and models the origins of culture. He is author of several simulation programs, coeditor of Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology and of Simulating Change, and author of numerous research articles.
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