ABSTRACT

The site-size hierarchy concept enables researchers to transform archaeological survey data into political classifications. Yet everything about the site-size rubric is worth re-thinking, from the reliability of surface-survey data to the recognition that sites of all sizes act autonomously within territorial configurations. New ways can visualize and analyze the process whereby complex societies (chiefdoms and states) emerge through the materialized energies of constituent parts (cities, towns, resource zones, fortifications, frontiers) that ebb and flow through connections of trade, warfare, alliances, and migration characterized by multiple and overlapping dynamisms among human and non-human elements, and in which historical trajectories form the basis of memory and action. Five alternative ways of mapping and analyzing relationships among sites are offered, derived from biological models of individual and collective interaction: reticulated hierarchies, logic gates, cellular automata, recurrent connectivity, and firefly synchronicity.

摘要

遗址规模等级概念使研究人员能够将考古调查数据转换为政治分类。然而，关于场地规模标准的一切都值得重新思考，从地表调查数据的可靠性到承认各种规模的场地在领土配置内自主行动的认识。新方法可以可视化和分析过程复杂的社会（酋长国和国家）通过构成部分（城市、城镇、资源区、防御工事、边境）的物质化能量出现，这些能量通过贸易、战争、联盟和移民的联系而起起落落，其特点是相互之间具有多重和重叠的活力人类和非人类因素，其中历史轨迹构成了记忆和行动的基础。提供了五种映射和分析站点之间关系的替代方法，这些方法源自个体和集体交互的生物学模型：网状层次结构、逻辑门、元胞自动机、循环连接和萤火虫同步性。