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  • 1
    ISSN: 0278-4165
    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: Journal of anthropological archaeology
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 42 (2016), p. 184-197
    DDC: 930
    Abstract: Regression-based predictive modelling is used to account for missing settlements. * Insights from a statistical analysis of seal assemblages are used to calibrate the model. * Evidence for the spatial distribution of elaborate seals conforms with model results. * The approach reveals underlying settlement patterns that would have otherwise been missed. * Links are highlighted between intensities of interaction, artefact variability and site hierarchy. Simulations of spatial interaction in archaeology have been successful in predicting the emergence of central sites, and political and economic hierarchies that match observed long-term settlement patterns. It still remains unclear, however, to what degree such models can effectively allow for uncertainty in the archaeological record, especially when it comes to incomplete and unevenly distributed settlement data, and how best they might incorporate artefact-scale evidence. This paper aims to address these issues, while attempting to tackle widely debated aspects of socio-political organisation and cultural interaction in the prehistoric Cretan landscape at the period immediately before and after the foundation of the first palace of Phaistos, one of the less well documented Bronze Age phases. We employ a simulation of spatial interaction inspired by approaches first developed in urban geography and combine this with regression-based predictive modelling to address the uncertainty introduced by missing settlements. We use evidence from artefact analysis partly to calibrate and partly to validate our model. We conclude that such an approach can contribute to more convincing archaeological theories about socio-political organisation, cultural affinity and regional identity by providing new evidence even in the presence of very fragmented data.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9783110266436 , 9783110370324 , 9783110266436
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 320 p.)
    Series Statement: Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt
    Abstract: In the past decade a range of formal spatial analysis methods has been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. Many, although not all, of these emanate from the fields of architectural and urban studies, and draw upon social theories of space that lay emphasis on the role of visibility, movement, and accessibility in the built environment. These approaches are now gaining in popularity among researchers of prehistoric and historic built spaces and are given increasingly more weight in the interpretation of past urban environments. Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces brings together contributions from specialists in archaeology, social theory, and urban planning who explore the theoretical and methodological frameworks associated with the application of new and established spatial analysis methods in past built environments. The focus is mainly on more recent computer-based approaches and on techniques such as access analysis, visibility graph analysis, isovist analysis, agent-based models of pedestrian movement, and 3D visibility approaches. The contributors to this volume examine the relationship between space and social life from many different perspectives, and provide illuminating examples from the archaeology of Greece, Italy and Cyprus, in which intra-site analysis offers valuable insights into the built spaces and societies under study
    Note: English
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