Carl Knappett
Biographic Data
| ID | 108205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Knappett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Knappett |
| SIGNATURE | KNAPPETT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9919-8859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 371 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Carrying fire: Containing sacred and profane flame in the Aegean Bronze Age
Materialidade na teoria arqueológica
Geophysical mapping of coastal and shallow submerged Bronze Age settlements: The case of Palaikastro, Eastern Crete Greece
Enhance the archaeological evidence; Continuation of prehistoric settlements; Coastal and shallow marine environments
Coastal Landscapes at Palaikastro, Eastern Crete, from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and Historical Periods
Exploring Pottery Production at Protopalatial to Postpalatial Palaikastro (East Crete) Through Integrated Petrographic and Elemental Analysis
This paper presents an archaeological material science study of pottery production and use at the Bronze Age Minoan town of Palaikastro, east Crete, from Middle Minoan IIA to Late Minoan IIIA2 ( c. 1850 to 1300 BC), through petrographic analysis of thin sections and wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The compositions of 288 archaeological samples are compared with geological references collected from the site and its adjacent …
A space for time: Containers as space for duration
Containment practices have been largely overlooked as a set of techniques. When they have received attention, it has largely been a matter of seeing containers as spaces. I argue here that a focus on the temporal dimension of containment can generate a more dynamic understanding of containers as artefacts. One key aspect of this reorientation is a recognition that containment invariably is followed by release, whether anticipated or accidental. I…
Ceramic Art
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat's volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of m…
The emergence of infrastructure in later prehistory: Technique, Wonder, and Convergence
Later prehistory in Eurasia is characterised by a suite of radical new technologies that include metallurgy, writing, and the wheel. Their emergence has often been attributed to the dramatically improved efficiencies they offer. This paper argues that instrumental accounts underplay the aesthetic qualities of technical action that have considerable bearing on how technologies emerge. In archaeology, the aesthetics of techniques finds limited reco…
Materiality in Archaeological Theory
Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World
From Network Connectivity to Human Mobility: Models for Minoanization
Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete)
Agricultural production and the palatial redistribution of staples have played a key role in the debate concerning the emergence of social complexity in Minoan Crete. However, much of the focus has fallen on major settlements where such products were consumed, rather than on the landscape where agricultural surplus was produced. While there is no shortage of landscape surveys on Crete, their emphasis has typically been on the distribution of rura…
Urbanism: Built Space and Communities at the Meso-Scal
Agglomerations of buildings, whether just a handful in a loose settlement, or a whole town with elaborate urban infrastructures (street system, drainage, open spaces, and other ‘public works’) constitute the meso-scale, the level of the community. Remarks on the variable quality of our data sets (see chapter 2) clearly apply to what we know of the meso-scale. Unfortunately, additional parameters also limit our understanding of Minoan agglomeratio…
Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment
Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that wit…
Deux dépôts MM II A dans le secteur Pi de Malia
Cet article présente deux dépôts de matériel en position secondaire mis au jour en 2008 et 2010 dans la partie nord du secteur Pi de Malia, où la principale phase reconnue correspondait à l’horizon de destruction du Quartier Mu (MM IIB). Or la céramique de ces dépôts appartient à une phase antérieure que l’on peut placer au MM IIA, une phase encore très mal documentée à Malia. Bien qu’il s’agisse manifestement de dépotoirs et qu’aucune structure …
A developmental approach to ancient innovation: The potter’s wheel in the Bronze Age east Mediterranean
In this paper, we view creativity through the lens of innovation, a concept familiar to archaeologists across a range of contexts and theoretical perspectives. Most attempts to understand ancient innovation thus far, we argue, have been limited by their lack of capacity to cope with the multiple scales of innovation: Those that track widespread changes, like the beginnings of metallurgy, fail to account for the changes experiences by individual c…
The Late Minoan I building at Vai (Crete)
In 1950, the French School at Athens conducted a brief excavation near the palm forest of Vai in Eastern Crete. This produced a good deal of Minoan material of which some was kept at the storerooms in Malia. This had never been published. In view of the intrinsic importance of this material and following the publication of stylistically and chronologically similar deposits from nearby sites such as Palaikastro, we present here some of the most di…
Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non‐Verbal Communication by Pierre Lemonnier
Network Analysis In Archaeology New Approaches To Regional Interaction
Warificación and minoanización
A pesar de estar distante en tiempo y espacio, existen ciertas similitudes entre los procesos de warificación y de minoanización, el último describe el consumo de material y tecnología cretense a través de la Edad de Bronce del sur del Egeo. En ambos casos, recientes investigaciones desafían la suposición de un núcleo activo y una periferia pasiva. Crucial para este desafío en el caso de Minoa, es el reconocimiento de una considerable variabilida…
Ceramics (As Containers)
This article focuses on the importance of ceramics in material cultural studies. It proceeds to say that ceramics are considered a key feature of human material culture because of what they are taken to represent in economic, technological, and evolutionary terms. The innovation of taking the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently be…
Networks Between Disciplines
This chapter discusses network approaches and how they might provide the basis for a more satisfactory interactionist perspective. Network approaches offer three advantages to archaeology. First, the nodes and links of a network can be placed in actual physical space, or positioned purely in relational terms. Thus, networks can be used to understand both geometric and topological interactions, and can help overcome the ‘bicameral’ approach that r…
An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society
"Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations - objects allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time. Through investigating this uniquely human capacity, this innovative volume argues that academic opinion about material objects tends to only consider individual artefacts, as in souvenirs and heirlooms, when what is truly distinctive in material culture is the capacity of object…
The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: New Interpretations Gained From Modelling the Maritime Network
What was the effect on Late Minoan civilisation of the catastrophic destruction of Akrotiri on Thera (Santorini) by volcanic eruption? Not much, according to the evidence for continuing prosperity on Crete. But the authors mobilise their ingenious mathematical model (published in Antiquity 82: 1009-1024), this time to show that the effects of removing a major port of call could have impacted after an interval, as increased costs of transport grad…
Material agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Photographs, Skeuomorphs and Marionettes: Some Thoughts on Mind, Agency and Object
The aim of this article is to investigate the agency of objects, a seemingly paradoxical statement within most recent western thought, in which agents and objects are sharply contrasted. However, in an important attempt to overcome the profound dichotomy between people and things, the observation that 'objects have social lives' has become something of a mantra in material culture studies. Yet rather more than a mantra is required if we are to mo…
Materials with materiality
Many scholars working in the domain of material culture will welcome this forceful statement from Ingold, sharing his frustration with the seemingly immaterial materiality emergent in the material-culture literature, the singular focus on things already made rather than their processes of becoming, and the apparent lack of contribution from those who do study materials in depth (e.g. archaeologists) to questions of materiality and material cultur…
Modelling maritime interaction in the Aegean Bronze Age
The authors raise spatial analysis to a new level of sophistication - and insight - in proposing a mathematical model of 'imperfect optimisation' to describe maritime networks. This model encodes, metaphorically, the notion of gravitational attraction between objects in space. The space studied here is the southern Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age, and the objects are the 34 main sites we know about. The 'gravitation' in this case is a balance of …
Assessing a Polity in Protopalatial Crete: The Malia-Lasithi State
This paper is an attempt to elucidate the regional character of the Malia-Lasithi state, one of the early states of Minoan Crete. The center of this state, the palace of Malia, was constructed, as also at Knossos, Phaistos, and perhaps Zakros, during the Middle Minoan 1 period (ca. 1900 B. C.). The territorial extent of the Malia-Lasithi polity has hitherto been hypothesized on the basis of the regional distribution of artifact styles, most notab…
Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete)
Agricultural production and the palatial redistribution of staples have played a key role in the debate concerning the emergence of social complexity in Minoan Crete. However, much of the focus has fallen on major settlements where such products were consumed, rather than on the landscape where agricultural surplus was produced. While there is no shortage of landscape surveys on Crete, their emphasis has typically been on the distribution of rura…
The Theran eruption and Minoan palatial collapse: New Interpretations Gained From Modelling the Maritime Network
What was the effect on Late Minoan civilisation of the catastrophic destruction of Akrotiri on Thera (Santorini) by volcanic eruption? Not much, according to the evidence for continuing prosperity on Crete. But the authors mobilise their ingenious mathematical model (published in Antiquity 82: 1009-1024), this time to show that the effects of removing a major port of call could have impacted after an interval, as increased costs of transport grad…
Mineralogical analysis and provenancing of ancient ceramics using automated SEM-EDS analysis (QEMSCAN®): A pilot study on LB I pottery from Akrotiri, Thera
Colonialism without Colonies? A Bronze Age Case Study from Akrotiri, Thera
Carl Knappett, Irene Nikolakopoulou, Colonialism without Colonies? A Bronze Age Case Study from Akrotiri, Thera, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2008), pp. 1-42
Tradition and innovation in pottery forming technology: Wheel-throwing at Middle Minoan Knossos
This paper examines ceramic evidence from Middle Minoan Knossos in an attempt to chart the introduction and development of wheel-throwing technology in Minoan pottery. The technique of wheel-throwing comes into its own in Middle Minoan I B, coeval with the construction of the first palaces and a number of other major changes. Although there are some indications that there could have been some degree of internal evolution towards this point, it al…
Beyond Skin: Layering and Networking in Art and Archaeology
This article puts forward two modes through which cognition and agency exist beyond skin: ‘layering’ and ‘networking’. These bodily and artefactual processes are broadly equivalent to two fundamental social practices defined by Chapman (2000) — accumulation and enchainment, respectively. While the aim of the article is to develop theoretical frameworks for application in archaeological settings, the themes encountered have wider relevance to mate…
The circulation and consumption of Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware: Petrographic, chemical and residue analysis
Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware is one of the most recognisable classes of pottery from the Late Bronze Age of the east Mediterranean. Yet both its production source and the nature of its contents and use remain a source of some debate. These questions are tackled here through an intensive programme of scientific analysis involving 95 samples of Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware and related wares from seven sites in Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt. Petrography an…
Continuity and change in Minoan palatial power
The relationship between economic power and political centralization during the First and Second Palace Periods of Bronze Age Crete is a topical theme in Aegean studies. Here, two scholars argue the case for continuity in the economic base of palatial political authority
From Network Connectivity to Human Mobility: Models for Minoanization
Ceramics (As Containers)
This article focuses on the importance of ceramics in material cultural studies. It proceeds to say that ceramics are considered a key feature of human material culture because of what they are taken to represent in economic, technological, and evolutionary terms. The innovation of taking the plastic medium of clay and marrying it with pyrotechnology to create irreversibly a resilient object — usually in the form of a container, has frequently be…
Middle and Late Iron Age painted ceramics from Kinet Höyük: Macro, micro and elemental analyses
This article presents the results of scientific analyses on a selection of sherds associated with two kilns from the site of Kinet Höyük (Hatay). The kilns are dated to the eighth century BC and the end of the seventh century BC. In between these two periods, archaeological evidence suggests a period of occupation by the Neo-Assyrians. The present study assesses the impact of this occupation on the pottery industry at the site using a combined ap…
Deux dépôts MM II A dans le secteur Pi de Malia
Cet article présente deux dépôts de matériel en position secondaire mis au jour en 2008 et 2010 dans la partie nord du secteur Pi de Malia, où la principale phase reconnue correspondait à l’horizon de destruction du Quartier Mu (MM IIB). Or la céramique de ces dépôts appartient à une phase antérieure que l’on peut placer au MM IIA, une phase encore très mal documentée à Malia. Bien qu’il s’agisse manifestement de dépotoirs et qu’aucune structure …
Three Neopalatial deposits from Palaikastro, East Crete
Although the MM III B and LM I A ceramic phases of the Neopalatial period have in central Crete recently been subjected to refinement and revision, some of it controversial, in the east of the island they are still not very clearly defined. It is often argued that these phases see important changes in Minoan political geography, with Knossos seemingly extending its influence farther afield than ever before. Thus closer definition of these phases …
Excavation of Neopalatial deposits at Tholos (Kastri), Kythera
Several rock-cut features, exposed on the surface of a trackway in the Tholos area of Kastri, Kythera, were excavated in July–August 2000 as a synergasia between Kythera Island Project and 2nd Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Although the surviving deposits were extremely shallow, they produced large quantities of conical cups and other pottery of Late Minoan I date. Further comparative analysis of the features themselves and the…
The Provenance of Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware: Cyprus. Syria or Anatolia
This paper on Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware, which is found over an extraordinarily wide area of the Near East, is an initial attempt to address the problem of its source. Using recently excavated pottery from Kilise Tepe in south-central Anatolia, a study of the typology and petrography of this pottery has been undertaken to compare the possible sources of Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware, which include Cyprus, Syria and Anatolia
Coastal Landscapes at Palaikastro, Eastern Crete, from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and Historical Periods
The emergence of infrastructure in later prehistory: Technique, Wonder, and Convergence
Later prehistory in Eurasia is characterised by a suite of radical new technologies that include metallurgy, writing, and the wheel. Their emergence has often been attributed to the dramatically improved efficiencies they offer. This paper argues that instrumental accounts underplay the aesthetic qualities of technical action that have considerable bearing on how technologies emerge. In archaeology, the aesthetics of techniques finds limited reco…
The Late Minoan I building at Vai (Crete)
In 1950, the French School at Athens conducted a brief excavation near the palm forest of Vai in Eastern Crete. This produced a good deal of Minoan material of which some was kept at the storerooms in Malia. This had never been published. In view of the intrinsic importance of this material and following the publication of stylistically and chronologically similar deposits from nearby sites such as Palaikastro, we present here some of the most di…
Warificación and minoanización
A pesar de estar distante en tiempo y espacio, existen ciertas similitudes entre los procesos de warificación y de minoanización, el último describe el consumo de material y tecnología cretense a través de la Edad de Bronce del sur del Egeo. En ambos casos, recientes investigaciones desafían la suposición de un núcleo activo y una periferia pasiva. Crucial para este desafío en el caso de Minoa, es el reconocimiento de una considerable variabilida…
In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects by Bjørnar Olsen
Traditional Pottery Technologies in Two North West Frontier Villages, Pakistan
L'etude presentee dans cet article a deux buts : documenter la fabrication traditionnelle des poteries de terre des provinces de la frontiere nord-ouest du Pakistan et montrer que ces observations ethnoarcheologiques peuvent etre utilisees avec efficacite lors de recherches archeologiques. Une analyse microscopique du travail des potiers contemporains a donc ete menee afin d'examiner les relations entre le processus et son expression materielle ;…
Beyond the palaces-views from the Minoan countryside
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Tradition and innovation in pottery forming technology: Wheel-throwing at Middle Minoan Knossos
This paper examines ceramic evidence from Middle Minoan Knossos in an attempt to chart the introduction and development of wheel-throwing technology in Minoan pottery. The technique of wheel-throwing comes into its own in Middle Minoan I B, coeval with the construction of the first palaces and a number of other major changes. Although there are some indications that there could have been some degree of internal evolution towards this point, it al…
Assessing a Polity in Protopalatial Crete: The Malia-Lasithi State
This paper is an attempt to elucidate the regional character of the Malia-Lasithi state, one of the early states of Minoan Crete. The center of this state, the palace of Malia, was constructed, as also at Knossos, Phaistos, and perhaps Zakros, during the Middle Minoan 1 period (ca. 1900 B. C.). The territorial extent of the Malia-Lasithi polity has hitherto been hypothesized on the basis of the regional distribution of artifact styles, most notab…
The Provenance of Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware: Cyprus. Syria or Anatolia
This paper on Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware, which is found over an extraordinarily wide area of the Near East, is an initial attempt to address the problem of its source. Using recently excavated pottery from Kilise Tepe in south-central Anatolia, a study of the typology and petrography of this pottery has been undertaken to compare the possible sources of Red Lustrous Wheel-Made Ware, which include Cyprus, Syria and Anatolia
Continuity and change in Minoan palatial power
The relationship between economic power and political centralization during the First and Second Palace Periods of Bronze Age Crete is a topical theme in Aegean studies. Here, two scholars argue the case for continuity in the economic base of palatial political authority
Excavation of Neopalatial deposits at Tholos (Kastri), Kythera
Several rock-cut features, exposed on the surface of a trackway in the Tholos area of Kastri, Kythera, were excavated in July–August 2000 as a synergasia between Kythera Island Project and 2nd Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Although the surviving deposits were extremely shallow, they produced large quantities of conical cups and other pottery of Late Minoan I date. Further comparative analysis of the features themselves and the…
Photographs, Skeuomorphs and Marionettes: Some Thoughts on Mind, Agency and Object
The aim of this article is to investigate the agency of objects, a seemingly paradoxical statement within most recent western thought, in which agents and objects are sharply contrasted. However, in an important attempt to overcome the profound dichotomy between people and things, the observation that 'objects have social lives' has become something of a mantra in material culture studies. Yet rather more than a mantra is required if we are to mo…
Le Quartier Nu (Malia, Crète). L'occupation du Minoen Moyen II
The article presents the results of the excavation carried out under the LM III levels of the Nu Quarter at Malia (Crete). The discovery of remains of the Protopalatial period suggests that the part of the town situated between the Gamma Quarter and the Mu Quarter was inhabited during MM IIB. The plan of a house, several of whose rooms were uncovered, is suggested; the rooms exhibit architectural features typical of the Protopalatial period: wall…
Three Neopalatial deposits from Palaikastro, East Crete
Although the MM III B and LM I A ceramic phases of the Neopalatial period have in central Crete recently been subjected to refinement and revision, some of it controversial, in the east of the island they are still not very clearly defined. It is often argued that these phases see important changes in Minoan political geography, with Knossos seemingly extending its influence farther afield than ever before. Thus closer definition of these phases …
Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Introduction: thinking through material culture 2. Animacy, agency, and personhood 3. Cognition, perception, and action 4. The dynamics of networks 5. Networks of meaning: a sociosemiotics of material culture 6. Thinking through: meaning in modern material culture 7. Archaeological case study: drinking vessels in Minoan Crete 8. Conclusions
The circulation and consumption of Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware: Petrographic, chemical and residue analysis
Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware is one of the most recognisable classes of pottery from the Late Bronze Age of the east Mediterranean. Yet both its production source and the nature of its contents and use remain a source of some debate. These questions are tackled here through an intensive programme of scientific analysis involving 95 samples of Red Lustrous Wheelmade ware and related wares from seven sites in Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt. Petrography an…
Middle and Late Iron Age painted ceramics from Kinet Höyük: Macro, micro and elemental analyses
This article presents the results of scientific analyses on a selection of sherds associated with two kilns from the site of Kinet Höyük (Hatay). The kilns are dated to the eighth century BC and the end of the seventh century BC. In between these two periods, archaeological evidence suggests a period of occupation by the Neo-Assyrians. The present study assesses the impact of this occupation on the pottery industry at the site using a combined ap…
A new model of Asiatic production
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Beyond Skin: Layering and Networking in Art and Archaeology
This article puts forward two modes through which cognition and agency exist beyond skin: ‘layering’ and ‘networking’. These bodily and artefactual processes are broadly equivalent to two fundamental social practices defined by Chapman (2000) — accumulation and enchainment, respectively. While the aim of the article is to develop theoretical frameworks for application in archaeological settings, the themes encountered have wider relevance to mate…
Artefacts in quarantine
As the authors situate the discussion in their offices, let me also begin in mine. On my way home from the office there will be many things around me. They will mostly be familiar and go largely unnoticed. I will take my keys off the desk and lock the door behind me. I will walk along the corridor, through the swing doors, down the stairs, unlock my bike, and so on. Desk, keys, door, carpet, windows, stairs, lock, bike – these are all objects wit…
Journées maliotes Malia, ville et territoire: Organisation des espaces et exploitation des ressources, colloque organisé a l'Ecole française d'Athènes les 2-3 novembre 2007
THE MALIA DAYS The Malia Days, organized by the Ecole française d'Athènes on November 2 and 3, 2007, focused on the organisation of space and the exploitation of resources, themes that allowed uniting the approaches of current work on two different scales, those of agglomeration and urbanism, on the one hand, and of the territorial organisation, on the other. All the contributions are concerned with ongoing research, of recent or forthcoming publ…
Unpublished Middle Minoan and Late Minoan I material from the 1962–3 excavations at Palaikastro, East Crete (PK VIII)
Results of excavations in 1962–3 at the Minoan coastal town of Palaikastro were published in the Annual in 1965 and 1970, as PK VI and PK VII . While those publications did report on all excavated contexts, in some cases this took the form of a preliminary report pending fuller study. The current paper ( PK VIII ) fills in most of the main gaps, particularly where the Middle Minoan period is concerned, but also with some attention to the Early an…
Material agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Materials with materiality
Many scholars working in the domain of material culture will welcome this forceful statement from Ingold, sharing his frustration with the seemingly immaterial materiality emergent in the material-culture literature, the singular focus on things already made rather than their processes of becoming, and the apparent lack of contribution from those who do study materials in depth (e.g. archaeologists) to questions of materiality and material cultur…
The Neglected Networks of Material Agency: Artefacts, Pictures and Texts
Colonialism without Colonies? A Bronze Age Case Study from Akrotiri, Thera
Carl Knappett, Irene Nikolakopoulou, Colonialism without Colonies? A Bronze Age Case Study from Akrotiri, Thera, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2008), pp. 1-42
Modelling maritime interaction in the Aegean Bronze Age
The authors raise spatial analysis to a new level of sophistication - and insight - in proposing a mathematical model of 'imperfect optimisation' to describe maritime networks. This model encodes, metaphorically, the notion of gravitational attraction between objects in space. The space studied here is the southern Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age, and the objects are the 34 main sites we know about. The 'gravitation' in this case is a balance of …
Mineralogical analysis and provenancing of ancient ceramics using automated SEM-EDS analysis (QEMSCAN®): A pilot study on LB I pottery from Akrotiri, Thera
Networks Between Disciplines
This chapter discusses network approaches and how they might provide the basis for a more satisfactory interactionist perspective. Network approaches offer three advantages to archaeology. First, the nodes and links of a network can be placed in actual physical space, or positioned purely in relational terms. Thus, networks can be used to understand both geometric and topological interactions, and can help overcome the ‘bicameral’ approach that r…
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