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Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest

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ID2655700
AuthorsB J Mills (0000-0002-2130-2185, University of Arizona, corresponding author), Matthew A Peeples (0000-0003-4496-623X, Archaeology Southwest), R Haas (0000-0002-7742-2127, University of Maryland, College Park), W Randall Haas, L Borck (0000-0003-0037-7249, University of Arizona), Jeffery J Clark (Archaeology Southwest), John M Roberts (0000-0003-3146-7853, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)
Year2015
Volume80
Issue1
Pages3-24
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.3
OpenAlexW2317674412
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited72

Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to complementary interpretations of relationships among archaeological settlements. We use social network analysis combined with geographic information systems at three spatial scales over time in the western U.S. Southwest to show how the same social processes affected network dynamics at each scale. The period we address, A.D. 1200-1450, was characterized by migration and demographic upheaval. The tumultuous late thirteenth-century interval was followed by population coalescence and the development of widespread religious movements in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the southern Southwest these processes resulted in a highly connected network that drew in members of different settlements within and between different valleys that had previously been distinct. In the northern Southwest networks were initially highly connected followed by a more fragmented social landscape. We examine how different network textures emerged at each scale through 50-year snapshots. The results demonstrate the usefulness of applying a multiscalar approach to complex historical trajectories and the potential for social network analysis as applied to archaeological data

Ancient history · Archaeology · Cartography · Economic geography · Fifteenth · Geography · Human settlement · Period (music) · Population · Scale (ratio) · Social network (sociolinguistics) · Social network analysis · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Demography · History · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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