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        Date: 2024-10-29 14:24:46+00:00
        From: Tom Brughmans <t.b@cas.au.dk>
        Subject: CFP: Archaeological Network Research session at CAA Athens

CFP Archaeological Network Research
Session @ CAA Athens https://2025.caaconference.org/
Paper submission deadline extended to 24 November

Join us in Athens, all papers applying networks for the study of the human past
are welcome.

Archaeological network research is the study of past relational phenomena using
network methods and theories. These phenomena could concern the distribution of
material culture through artefact co-occurrence, past maritime and pedestrian
mobility, visual signaling and visual prominence, food webs, knowledge creation,
illicit trade in antiquities and much more. Computational network methods are
invaluable in archaeological network research, as they enable the formal
representation and analysis of network data and its analysis, and to test
relational theories.

There is huge potential in further developing archaeological network research to
address topics for which both material culture and network methods are not
merely desirable but required. Recent overviews of the field (Brughmans and
Peeples 2023, 271-280; Munson et al. 2023) have revealed the following research
lines to be particularly promising:

  *   Empirical past social network reconstruction
  *   Socioecological networks and environmental variability
  *   Cultural evolution and biological networks
  *   Past economies
  *   Textual and material networks
  *   Networks of archaeological practice

This sessions aims to actively contribute to the future development of
archaeological network research. It particularly welcomes papers addressing
original method and theory work along the above lines, as well as innovative
applied case studies in those research lines. It additionally provides a
suitable venue to present and debate any archaeological network studies
regardless of material, period, method or theory.

Bibliography:
Brughmans, T., & Peeples, M. A. (2023). Network Science in Archaeology.
Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Munson, J., Mills, B. J., Brughmans, T., & Peeples, M. A. (2023). Anticipating
the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research. In T. Brughmans, B. J. Mills,
J. Munson, & M. A. Peeples (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network
Research (1st ed., pp. 664–674). Oxford University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.44

Tom Brughmans and Paula Gheorghiade


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