S A Collins‐Elliott
Biographic Data
| ID | 5215462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S A Collins‐Elliott |
| GIVEN NAMES | S A |
| FAMILY NAME | Collins‐Elliott |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOTT S A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5642-6903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evaluating the Relationship Between Surface, Subsurface, and Stratigraphic Assemblages
Dynamic Modeling of the Effects of Site Placement on Environmental Suitability
This paper offers a new numerical approach to model the effects of archaeological site placement and population density on environmental suitability using two ecological models, the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and Ideal Despotic Distribution (IDD), treating the Oued Loukkos in northern Morocco as an example. This method incorporates local resource depletion with increasing population density consistent with the predictions of the IFD. It also i…
Behavioral Analysis of Monetary Exchange and Craft Production in Rural Tuscany via Small Finds from the Roman Peasant Project
Roman archaeology has long made use of an urban-rural dichotomy to conceptualize and frame questions about the material record, carrying over values of urbanism and rusticity explicit in ancient textual sources. The construction of rural culture deserves articulation not as a received idea, but through comparison of actual assemblages recovered from archaeological contexts in the countryside. Accordingly, this paper uses the small finds from the …
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Quantifying artefacts over time
This paper presents a new method for estimating the amount of an artefact class in use at a given moment in the past from a random assemblage of archaeological finds. The method is based on the use of simulation, since an analytical solution is computationally impractical. Estimating the number of artefacts in use at any time t is shown to follow a Poisson distribution, which allows for credible intervals to be established using the Jeffreys prio…
Bayesian inference with Monte Carlo approximation
Either a God or a Wild Beast
In light of the Aristotelian paradigm that human beings must categorically belong to a community, Sertorius' detachment and self-sufficiency are problematic for individual and Roman societal wellbeing. Plutarch examines the tension in Sertorius' character with respect to the ethical and political concerns of his own day
Social Memory and Identity in the Central Apennines under Augustus
This essay addresses the topic of the oblivion of Samnite identity that transpired around the end of the first century BCE and beginning of the first century CE. By placing the discussion of the end of the Samnites within a context of memory and monuments, it can be shown that the dissolution of the Samnites as a nation was effected by different processes of forgetting, one active (in which new monumental landscapes were imposed over older ones) …
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Bayesian inference with Monte Carlo approximation
Dynamic Modeling of the Effects of Site Placement on Environmental Suitability
This paper offers a new numerical approach to model the effects of archaeological site placement and population density on environmental suitability using two ecological models, the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and Ideal Despotic Distribution (IDD), treating the Oued Loukkos in northern Morocco as an example. This method incorporates local resource depletion with increasing population density consistent with the predictions of the IFD. It also i…
Quantifying artefacts over time
This paper presents a new method for estimating the amount of an artefact class in use at a given moment in the past from a random assemblage of archaeological finds. The method is based on the use of simulation, since an analytical solution is computationally impractical. Estimating the number of artefacts in use at any time t is shown to follow a Poisson distribution, which allows for credible intervals to be established using the Jeffreys prio…
Social Memory and Identity in the Central Apennines under Augustus
This essay addresses the topic of the oblivion of Samnite identity that transpired around the end of the first century BCE and beginning of the first century CE. By placing the discussion of the end of the Samnites within a context of memory and monuments, it can be shown that the dissolution of the Samnites as a nation was effected by different processes of forgetting, one active (in which new monumental landscapes were imposed over older ones) …
Social Memory and Identity in the Central Apennines under Augustus
This essay addresses the topic of the oblivion of Samnite identity that transpired around the end of the first century BCE and beginning of the first century CE. By placing the discussion of the end of the Samnites within a context of memory and monuments, it can be shown that the dissolution of the Samnites as a nation was effected by different processes of forgetting, one active (in which new monumental landscapes were imposed over older ones) …
Bayesian inference with Monte Carlo approximation
Either a God or a Wild Beast
In light of the Aristotelian paradigm that human beings must categorically belong to a community, Sertorius' detachment and self-sufficiency are problematic for individual and Roman societal wellbeing. Plutarch examines the tension in Sertorius' character with respect to the ethical and political concerns of his own day
Behavioral Analysis of Monetary Exchange and Craft Production in Rural Tuscany via Small Finds from the Roman Peasant Project
Roman archaeology has long made use of an urban-rural dichotomy to conceptualize and frame questions about the material record, carrying over values of urbanism and rusticity explicit in ancient textual sources. The construction of rural culture deserves articulation not as a received idea, but through comparison of actual assemblages recovered from archaeological contexts in the countryside. Accordingly, this paper uses the small finds from the …
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Quantifying artefacts over time
This paper presents a new method for estimating the amount of an artefact class in use at a given moment in the past from a random assemblage of archaeological finds. The method is based on the use of simulation, since an analytical solution is computationally impractical. Estimating the number of artefacts in use at any time t is shown to follow a Poisson distribution, which allows for credible intervals to be established using the Jeffreys prio…
Dynamic Modeling of the Effects of Site Placement on Environmental Suitability
This paper offers a new numerical approach to model the effects of archaeological site placement and population density on environmental suitability using two ecological models, the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) and Ideal Despotic Distribution (IDD), treating the Oued Loukkos in northern Morocco as an example. This method incorporates local resource depletion with increasing population density consistent with the predictions of the IFD. It also i…
Evaluating the Relationship Between Surface, Subsurface, and Stratigraphic Assemblages
Archaeology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works)