The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research

Tom Brughmans, Aarhus University,Barbara J. Mills, University of Arizona,Jessica Munson, Lycoming College,Matthew A. Peeples, Arizona State University

Tom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University's Classical Archaeology and Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet). His research interests include the study of past social networks, Roman ceramics, citation networks and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science, agent-based simulation and geographical information systems. He leads the Past Social Networks Project, which aims to encourage the open publication and reuse of past social network data, through developing a dedicated repository and metadata standards.

Barbara J. Mills is Regents Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology, University of Arizona. She has edited or authored eight books and monographs, and dozens of articles and chapters in books, including "The Establishment and Defeat of Hierarchy: Inalienable Possessions and the History of Collective Prestige Structures in the Puebloan Southwest" (2004, American Anthropologist), winner of the Gordon Willey Award.

Jessica Munson is Associate Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology at Lycoming College. Her research combines archaeological fieldwork with quantitative studies of settlement patterns, household possessions, and hieroglyphic inscriptions to investigate the long-term dynamics of sociopolitical systems and spread of cultural innovations across the Maya lowlands. She is also director of the Proyecto Arqueológico Altar de Sacrificios (PAALS), a multidisciplinary project that combines regional survey, household excavations, and paleoenvironmental studies to examine the diverse factors that contributed to the development of inequality and socioeconomic difference in ancient Maya society.


Matthew A. Peeples Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, and Director of the ASU Center for Archaeology and Society. His research is focused on using network methods and models with archaeological data to address questions revolving around the nature of regional scale social networks over the long-term in the ancient US Southwest and Mexican Northwest. He serves as co-PI of cyberSW, a cyberinfrastructure project focused on providing archaeological data and open-access tools to analyze them to facilitate interdisciplinary social science research in the US Southwest.

1. Introduction, Matthew A. Peeples, Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, and Tom Brughmans
Part I: Archaeological Networks in Practice
2. Network Methods and Properties, Clara Filet and Fabrice Rossi
3. Challenges for Network Research in Archaeology, Matthew A. Peeples, John M. Roberts, Jr, and Yi Yin
4. Beyond the Node-Link Diagram: A Fast Forward about Network Visualization for Archaeology, Benjamin Bach and Mereke van Garderen
5. Inference from Archaeological Similarity Networks, Per Östborn and Henrik Gerding
Part II: Material Culture Networks
6. Material Networks and Culture Change, Jennifer Birch
7. Material Culture Similarity and Co-occurrence Networks, Elliot H. Blair
8. Mortuary Archaeology Networks, Daniel Sosna
9. Geochemical Networks, Mark Golitko
10. Networks and Museum Collections, Sarah M. Griffin and Florian Klimm
Part III: Geographical Networks
11. Nearest and Relative Neighbourhood Networks, Diego Jiménez-Badillo
12. Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models, Ray Rivers, Tim Evans, and Eleftheria Paliou
13. Transportation Networks and Least-Cost Paths, Irmela Herzog
14. Space Syntax and Pedestrian Modelling, Mu-Chun Wu
15. Visibility Networks, Zoran Čučković
16. Hydrographic Networks, Eduardo Apolinaire and Laura Bastourre
Part IV: Network Simulation
17. Complexity Science and Networks in Archaeology, Iza Romanowska
18. Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and Archaeology, Wendy H. Cegielski
19. Random Graph Models, Viviana Amati
Part V: Biological Networks
20. Biodistance Networks, Kent M. Johnson
21. Food Webs, Stefani A. Crabtree and Jennifer A. Dunne
Part VI: Text-Based Networks
22. Historical and Archaeological Network Data, Claire Lemercier
23. Epigraphic Networks in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Diane Harris Cline and Jessica Munson
24. Linked Data Networks: How, Why and When to Apply Network Analysis to LOD, Valeria Vitale and Rainer Simon
25. Knowledge Networks, Allison Mickel, Anthony Sinclair, and Tom Brughmans
26. Networks and Religious Transformations, Vojtěch Kaše, Tomáš Glomb, and Jan Fousek
Part VII: Cultural Transmission and Human Evolution
27. Perspectives on Human Behavioural Evolution from Primate Networks, Valéria Romano and Sergi Lozano
28. Palaeolithic Social Networks and Behavioural Modernity, Claudine Gravel-Miguel, and Fiona Coward
29. Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Briggs Buchanan and Marcus J. Hamilton
Part VIII: Movement, Exchange, and Flows through Networks
30. Maritime Networks, Justin Leidwanger
31. Migration and Archaeological Network Research, Barbara J. Mills and Matthew A. Peeples
32. Network Modelling of the Spread of Disease, Marek Vlach
33. The Antiquities Trade and Digital Networks: Or, the Supercharging Effect of Social Media on the Rise of the Amateur Antiquities Trader, Shawn Graham and Damien Huffer
Part IX: Assessing the Structural Characteristics of Networks
34. Social Networks and Inequality, Matthew Pailes
35. Networks and Catastrophes, Erik Gjesfjeld
36. Community Detection, Jelena Grujić and Miljana Radivojević
37. Settlement Scaling Analysis as Social Network Analysis, Scott G. Ortman
38. Networks and Sociopolitical Organization, Jacob Holland-Lulewicz
Part X: Looking Ahead and Beyond
39. Archaeological Network Science, Ulrik Brandes
40. Network Models and the Past: Relational Thinking and Contingency Analysis, John Edward Terrell
41. Network Epistemologies in Archaeology, Carl Knappett and Angus Mol
42. Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research, Jessica Munson, Barbara J. Mills, Tom Brughmans, and Matthew A. Peeples