13 Old-Boy Networks in the Indigenous Caribbean

Mol, Angus A. A.; Mans, Jimmy

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“…The present study focuses upon the end of the second century CE because it represents one of the most well-defined periods for Ostia's urban landscape (DeLaine 2005). The extensive number of studies into buildings dating to the second century CE means that the built environment and corresponding streets are relatively well identified (Calza 1953;DeLaine 2002;Mar 2008;Meiggs 1973;Pavolini 2016). The extent to which the city has been excavated and knowledge of its street network provide an excellent opportunity to study pedestrian movement dynamics within the city.…”

Section: Ostia's Urban Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These classifications do not negate the complexity of urban space, instead, they serve as an exploratory method to assess how different buildings, associated with specific types of social activity, shaped movement patterns within Ostia's urban landscape. All excavated buildings that compose the late second century CE city were classified into one of these five categories following their general architectural function (Flohr 2013;Heinzelmann 2005;Meiggs 1973;Packer 1971;Russell 2016). There is a certain degree of speculation within these classifications.…”

Section: Ostia's Urban Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Crawford

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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Despite a range of existing approaches for examining movement within ancient cities, the study of movement intent has received limited attention. This paper begins to address this gap by considering how pedestrian movement can be studied at Ostia, Rome's ancient port, by transitioning focus to what structured movement routes, namely the built environment and social activity. Using the UNA (Urban Network Analysis) Toolbox developed for ArcGIS, betweeness centrality is calculated in relation to different types of buildings. The results, when associated with Ostia's streets, provide a visualization of potential areas of movement specific to certain social activities that occurred within the urban landscape. This provides a novel methodological approach for assessing different forms of directed movement within ancient urban landscapes.

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Section: Ostia's Urban Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ostia's Urban Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Crawford

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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“…Such framework is being developed for understanding "modern cyber, social and physical systems such as online social networks, transportation systems, metabolic and regulatory networks, etc., " i.e., huge systems about which an almost unlimited amount of information is available (http://cosnet.bifi.es/networktheory/multiplexnetworks/). 3 Although they can also be parts of a site (Mol and Mans, 2013) or groups of sites (Mizoguchi, 2009(Mizoguchi, , 2013 nodes that may represent a problem in network construction in general, and ASN in particular.…”

Section: Asn: Network Inferred From the Archeological Recordmentioning

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Wiring the Past: A Network Science Perspective on the Challenge of Archeological Similarity Networks

Prignano

Morer

Dı́az-Guilera

2017

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Nowadays, it is a common knowledge that scholars from different disciplines, regardless of the specificities of their research domains, can find in network science a valuable ally when tackling complexity. However, there are many difficulties that may arise, starting from the process of mapping a system onto a network which is not by any means a trivial step. This article deals with those issues inherent to the specific challenge of building a network from archeological data, focusing in particular on networks of archeological contexts. More specifically, we address technical difficulties faced when constructing networks of contexts or sites where past interactions are inferred based on some kind of similarity between the corresponding assemblages (Archeological Similarity Networks or ASN). We propose a basic characterization in formal terms of ASN as a well-defined class of networks with its own specific features. Throughout the article, we devote special attention to the problem of quantifying the similarity between sites, especially in relation with the ubiquitous issues of data incompleteness and the reliability of the inferred ties. We argue that, generally speaking, human past studies are quite disconnected from the rest of interdisciplinary applications of network science and that this prevent this field from fully exploiting the potential of such methods. Our goal is to give hints about which are the interesting questions that archeological applications put on the table of network scientists. We suggest that such questions need to be translated into formal terms in order to be properly addressed within the framework of interdisciplinary collaborations. At this aim, a computational experiment is devised as an illustrative example of how simple models can help the cause.

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“…See Ensor (2013) or Keegan (2007) for Caribbean archaeological perspectives on kin networks. See Mol and Mans (2013) for a network case study that contrasts contemporary Guyanese and proto-contact Hispaniolan indigenous kin networks and the distribution of material culture in them. faced all sorts of hardships, leading to general health problems as evidenced by trauma and pathologies in the adult burial population.…”

Section: Micro-scale Relations At Kelbey's Ridgementioning

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“…Fisher 2009; Hillier and Hanson 1984; E. Mol 2012)-there is no network theoretical reason that would prevent a reconstruction of intra-site networks (see also Mol and Mans 2013). Like with other types of network approaches in archaeology, the limitations for ego-network modelling and analysis within sites are generally speaking practical.…”

Section: Conclusion: Multi-scalarity and The Value Of Site Egos In Armentioning

confidence: 99%

Remotely Local: Ego-networks of Late Pre-colonial (AD 1000–1450) Saba, North-eastern Caribbean

Mol

Hoogland

Hofman

2015

J Archaeol Method Theory

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Ego-networks, based on a socio-metric method for the analysis of the direct social relations an individual engages in, of archaeological site assemblages may be used to great effect in archaeology. They provide a means to combine multi-scalar and multidisciplinary data and thereby explore sites as a nexus of material relations. This paper outlines how such a site ego-network could be constructed. This is illustrated using the fourteenth century site of Kelbey's Ridge 2, Saba, in the North-eastern Caribbean. Kelbey's Ridge 2 is an interesting case study since it was likely a newly established, but also short-lived settlement. The reason for settlement may have been that, even if the island of Saba was relatively poor in terrestrial resources, it had a geographically strategic location and access to rich marine resources. Intra-site features at the site evidence a complex set of relations between house spaces and living and deceased members of the community. Additionally, the site's engagement with the wider island world is reflective of a transitional moment for communities in the late pre-colonial North-eastern Caribbean. A betweenness analysis of its ego-network provides a new perspective of Kelbey's Ridge 2, pinpointing material practices and objects that must have been crucial for the viability and identity of the community. This case study shows that ego-networks may be profitably used alongside current archaeological relational theories, substantive studies of site assemblages and other archaeological network approaches. IntroductionRelational theories are currently enjoying enormous discipline-wide popularity (e.g. Hodder 2012; Knappett 2011). Despite this, relational methodologies, like those from the network sciences (Brandes et al. 2013), are still approached with a measure of scepticism. To many, archaeological datasets present types of relations that cannot be

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13 Old-Boy Networks in the Indigenous Caribbean

Cited by 7 publications

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Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Rethinking Approaches for the Study of Urban Movement at Ostia

Wiring the Past: A Network Science Perspective on the Challenge of Archeological Similarity Networks

Remotely Local: Ego-networks of Late Pre-colonial (AD 1000–1450) Saba, North-eastern Caribbean

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