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Transformation of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic US Southwest

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ID23328392
AuthorsB J Mills (0000-0002-2130-2185, University of Arizona), Jeffery J Clark (Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ 85701), Matthew A Peeples (0000-0003-4496-623X, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ 85701), R Haas (0000-0002-7742-2127, University of Arizona), W R Haas (University of Arizona), John M Roberts (0000-0003-3146-7853, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201), J Brett Hill (Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ 85701), Deborah L Huntley (0000-0001-7868-9264, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, AZ 85701), L Borck (0000-0003-0037-7249, University of Arizona), R Breiger (0000-0003-0575-9211, University of Arizona), Ronald L Breiger (University of Arizona), Aaron Clauset (0000-0002-3529-8746, Department of Computer Science and BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309), M S Shackley (0000-0002-4122-0427, Archaeological XRF Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM 87113)
Year2013
Volume110
Issue15
Pages5785-5790
Publication date2013-04-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-8424 • E-ISSN: 1091-6490
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1073/pnas.1219966110
PMID23530201
PMCIDPMC3625298
OpenAlexW2008156993
LanguageEN
Citations received156
References cited21

The late pre-Hispanic period in the US Southwest (A.D. 1200–1450) was characterized by large-scale demographic changes, including long-distance migration and population aggregation. To reconstruct how these processes reshaped social networks, we compiled a comprehensive artifact database from major sites dating to this interval in the western Southwest. We combine social network analysis with geographic information systems approaches to reconstruct network dynamics over 250 y. We show how social networks were transformed across the region at previously undocumented spatial, temporal, and social scales. Using well-dated decorated ceramics, we track changes in network topology at 50-y intervals to show a dramatic shift in network density and settlement centrality from the northern to the southern Southwest after A.D. 1300. Both obsidian sourcing and ceramic data demonstrate that long-distance network relationships also shifted from north to south after migration. Surprisingly, social distance does not always correlate with spatial distance because of the presence of network relationships spanning long geographic distances. Our research shows how a large network in the southern Southwest grew and then collapsed, whereas networks became more fragmented in the northern Southwest but persisted. The study also illustrates how formal social network analysis may be applied to large-scale databases of material culture to illustrate multigenerational changes in network structure.

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