Transforming Legacy Spatial Data into Testable Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Organization

Quinn, Colin P.; Fivenson, D P

doi:10.1017/aap.2019.37

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“…Additional data on the age, location, size, and function of sites provide a more comprehensive picture of the distribution of human activities across the landscape. Once regional surveys are complete, we can investigate site distribution [ 1 ], demography [ 2 ], spatial networks [ 3 ], economic organisation [ 4 ], trade and transportation networks [ 5 ], core and periphery relationships [ 6 ], viewscapes [ 7 ], and other phenomena that have a spatial dimension.…”

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Does the Locally-Adaptive Model of Archaeological Potential (LAMAP) work for hunter-gatherer sites? A test using data from the Tanana Valley, Alaska

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We report an assessment of the ability of the Locally-Adaptive Model of Archaeological Potential (LAMAP) to estimate archaeological potential in relation to hunter-gatherer sites. The sample comprised 182 known sites in the Tanana Valley, Alaska, which was occupied solely by hunter-gatherers for about 14,500 years. To estimate archaeological potential, we employed physiographic variables such as elevation and slope, rather than variables that are known to vary on short time scales, like vegetation cover. Two tests of LAMAP were carried out. In the first, we used the location of a random selection of 90 sites from all time periods to create a LAMAP model. We then evaluated the model with the remaining 92 sites. In the second test, we built a LAMAP model from 12 sites that pre-date 10,000 cal BP. This model was then tested with sites that post-date 10,000 cal BP. In both analyses, areas predicted to have higher archaeological potential contained higher frequencies of validation sites. The performance of LAMAP in the two tests was comparable to its performance in previous tests using archaeological sites occupied by agricultural societies. Thus, the study extends the use of LAMAP to the task of estimating archaeological potential of landscapes in relation to hunter-gatherer sites.

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Does the Locally-Adaptive Model of Archaeological Potential (LAMAP) work for hunter-gatherer sites? A test using data from the Tanana Valley, Alaska

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“…One way of investigating these mobility constraints is to use network theory to model relevant dimensions of the geography [26][27][28]. Several network modeling studies [29][30][31] illustrate the utility of network approaches to evaluate social differences in the Carpathian Basin during the Bronze Age.…”

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River networks and funerary metal in the Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin

Duffy

2020

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Archaeologists use differences in metals from burial contexts to identify variation in social inequalities during the European Bronze Age. Many have argued that these social inequalities depended on access to, and control of, trade routes. In this paper, I model critical gateways in the Tisza river-a river system in the Carpathian Basin that might have enabled privileged access to metal in some areas but not others. I then evaluate the concentration of metal on different topological nodes of the river network in an attempt to understand what best explains the distribution of metals across this landscape. I do this by describing Bronze Age metal consumption and display in cemeteries from four micro-regions of the Tisza, and compare them with network 'betweenness centrality' values for locations along the river. I find support for the argument that favourably located river nodes had better access to metal in the earlier part of the Bronze Age.

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