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Unravelling the threads of connectivity: A mutual information approach to tracing material networks in the late hellenistic and early roman mediterranean
No full textThe study of connectivity and interaction in the Mediterranean world is a rich and vibrant topic. While most direct attestations of past interaction have been lost, we can use the ubiquity of material markers such as ceramic tablewares to trace the structures and underlying drivers of past networks. In this paper, we use an innovative combination of least cost path analysis and mutual information to explore the relative contributions of geographical proximity and potential social, economic, and political factors underlying the distributions of material culture. We apply this method to a case study using the ICRATES dataset of tablewares from the eastern Mediterranean in late Hellenistic and early Roman times (150 BCE - 50 CE). By exploring the multifaceted factors shaping these distributions, we enrich our understanding of ancient economies and trade networks, as well as provide further insight into broader questions of (cultural) exchange and power dynamics in the ancient world. Through this novel approach, we hope to pave the way for future research endeavours that seek to unravel the intricate threads of connectivity shaping past and present human societies.The research for this paper conducted by DK was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (3H180694). Parts of the research conducted by DD took place at conferences where his presence was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders WOG Funding (W001220N3H200066). DD was supported in his research through his positions at Middle East Technical University, KU Leuven, and VU Amsterdam. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. We thank dr. Ben Marwick for his suggestions to improve the reproducibility of the paper
Replication Data for: SAGAscape: Simulating Resource Exploitation Strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic Communities in Southwest Anatolia
No full textThis dataset contains the files pertaining to the most recent version of the SAGAscape model and the analysis of its results as they appear in publication. SAGAscape is an agent-based model of resource exploitation during the late Iron Age to Hellenistic period for the study area of Sagalassos, Turkey. Settlements known from survey or excavation source food, wood and clay in a realistic GIS-based environment. For this, they simultaneously take resource availability, accessibility and labor availability into account. Soil fertility and forest standing stock regenerate over time, leading to patterns of land use in time and space. SAGAscape is written in NetLogo; its output is analysed in R
The Effects of Time-Averaging on Archaeological Networks
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Sociale complexiteit in Sagalassos en Düzen Tepe tijdens de Klassieke en Hellenistische periode
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Building communities. Presenting a model of community formation and organizational complexity in southwestern Anatolia
Get PDFIn this paper, a model of community formation and organizational complexity is presented, focusing on the fundamental role of social interactions and information transmission for the development of complex social organisation. The model combines several approaches in complex systems thinking which has garnered increasing attention in archaeology. It is then outlined how this conceptual model can be applied in archaeology. In the absence of direct observations of constituent social interactions, archaeologists study the past through material remnants found in the archaeological record. People used their material surroundings to shape, structure and guide social interactions and practices in various ways. The presented framework shows how dynamics of social organisation and community formation can be inferred from these material remains. The model is applied on a case study of two communities, Sagalassos and Düzen Tepe, located in southwestern Anatolia during late Achaemenid to middle Hellenistic times (fifth to second centuries BCE). It is suggested that constituent interactions and practices can be linked to the markedly different forms of organizational structures and material surroundings attested in both communities. The case study illustrates how the presented model can help understand trajectories of socio-political structures and organizational complexity on a community level.sponsorship: The research for this paper was funded through a fellowship by the Research Foundation Flanders, and has further been supported by the Belgian Programme on Interuniversity Poles of Attraction, the Research Fund of the University of Leuven, and the Academic Foundation Leuven. The author has been part of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project, originally directed by Marc Waelkens and since 2014 under directorship of Jeroen Poblome (both KU Leuven). The author wishes to thank Bas Beaujean for his help with some of the figures, Kim Vyncke and Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, who coordinated the excavations at the site of Diizen Tepe, and Peter Talloen who coordinated the excavations at the Upper Agora of Sagalassos. Gratitude is also due to Jeroen Poblome, John Bintliff, Sander van der Leeuw, Philip Van Peer, Christopher Ratte, and Katelijn Vandorpe for their comments and feedback on earlier versions of this text. (Research Foundation Flanders, Belgian Programme on Interuniversity Poles of Attraction, University of Leuven, Academic Foundation Leuven)status: Publishe
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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