Session Proposal: Interconnected – Network Approaches in Archaeology.
As the modern world becomes more and more entangled, archaeologists are increasingly interested in empirical ways to grasp the interconnectedness of things and people in the past. Network approaches in archaeology have shown their potential to quantify and analyse connectedness, and more ambitious and innovative case studies have entered the world of Archaeology in the past decade. Networks of economy and trade, power relations, communication are well established resources for inquiry, but equally, networks of material entanglement, identities and intra-site specific practices have recently shown their potential. This session invites contributors to explore avenues for incorporating network studies of varying natures into archaeological studies, and highlight their ability to offer new insights into existing data. Possible themes range from the practicalities of software or data collection and management, as well as educational possibilities to introduce archaeology students to network studies, to individual case studies incorporating network approaches. Regional or intra-site specific studies, assemblage-focused studies, or relationality of practice or ontology are highly welcome. More theoretical approaches of entanglement and relationality, such as actor-network theory, may offer further inspiration for structural network studies and are explicitly included in the discussion on the interconnectedness of people, past and present.
Contribute to network session for Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference
Amanda Althoff, from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, is preparing a network session proposal for the Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology (CASA) Conference, 13 – 15 September 2019. This year’s theme is ‘New Frontiers in Archaeology’. The conference will be held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. For more information, see CASA website:https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/casa
Please find the session abstract below. If you wish to join this session then don’t hesitate to get in touch with Amanda soon, she aims to submit the session proposal in the next weeks and it would be good to have a few confirmed presentations:
Archaeological Networks 