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Cutting the Network, Knotting the Line: a Linaeological Approach to Network Analysis
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory ( IF 3.073 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-18 , DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09450-1
Gísli Pálsson

Network methods have seen a rapid rise in archaeology in recent years. There are still concerns regarding how well formal networks are able to effectively model local interaction. These are often present in the so-called qualitative network approaches—studies that tend to be based on close readings of relations between entities and the way they form dynamic networks of agents. Such studies have demonstrated the value in scrutinizing the way in which relations might be acted on in practice, and how that might differ from expected results. But rarely do such studies produce network data of the kind analyzed by formal network analytical methods. Formal approaches, on the other hand, blur the specificity of individual relations and trade much of their specificity for the ability to make general statements about relations across large datasets. More generally, the modality of the relation/edge is a crucial way in which formal network analysis differs from other prevalent relational approaches popular in archaeology today, where the substantivity of individual relations is paramount. Such relations are often seen as starting points for subsequent hybridizations that radically alter, if only temporarily, the structure of their respective networks. I argue that a key step in allowing networks to reformulate from initial, data-driven network schemata is the introduction of a more symmetrical agency between the node and the edge. In this article, I discuss how ethnographic sources can be used to achieve this for archaeological survey data. I use assemblage theory as a framework to explore the potential the edge has to offer archaeological network modelling. While assemblage theory is helpful for this purpose, the lack of a computational formality to assemblage theory immediately places it at odds with network science. As a complement, I will also employ the computational ontology CIDOC-CRM to more explicitly articulate the character of links between nodes in archaeological networks. The paper will end by suggesting a method of network modelling which integrates the line as a key source of agency. As a nod to Ingold’s call for an increased emphasis on the line, I call this approach network linaeology.



中文翻译:

切割网络,结成线:网络分析的一种语言学方法

近年来,网络方法在考古学中迅速崛起。形式网络能够有效地建模本地交互的能力仍然令人担忧。这些通常存在于所谓的定性网络方法中-这些研究往往基于对实体之间的关系及其形成代理网络的方式的仔细阅读。此类研究证明了在仔细研究关系在实践中的作用方式以及与预期结果之间的差异时的价值。但是,此类研究很少产生通过正式网络分析方法进行分析的网络数据。另一方面,形式化方法模糊了单个关系的特殊性,并将其大部分特殊性换成了对大型数据集之间的关系做出一般性陈述的能力。更普遍地说,关系/边缘的形式是至关重要的方式,正式的网络分析与当今考古学中其他流行的关系方法(其中个体关系的实体性是最重要的)不同。这种关系通常被视为后续杂交的起点,这些杂交会(如果只是暂时地)从根本上改变其各自网络的结构。我认为,允许网络从数据驱动的初始网络架构重新制定的关键步骤是在节点和边缘之间引入更加对称的代理。在本文中,我将讨论如何将人种学资源用于考古调查数据。我使用组合理论作为框架来探索边缘提供考古网络建模的潜力。尽管组装理论对此有所帮助,但缺乏计算形式的组装理论立即使它与网络科学背道而驰。作为补充,我还将使用计算本体CIDOC-CRM来更明确地表达考古网络中节点之间的链接特征。本文最后将提出一种网络建模方法,该方法将生产线作为代理商的重要来源。为了表达对Ingold的呼吁,即增加对生产线的重视,我将此方法称为网络线性学。本文最后将提出一种网络建模方法,该方法将生产线作为代理商的重要来源。为了表达对Ingold的呼吁,即增加对生产线的重视,我将此方法称为网络线性学。本文最后将提出一种网络建模方法,该方法将生产线作为代理商的重要来源。为了表达对Ingold的呼吁,即增加对生产线的重视,我将此方法称为网络线性学。

更新日期:2020-04-18
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