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Modelling maritime interaction in the Aegean Bronze Age
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The authors raise spatial analysis to a new level of sophistication – and insight – in proposing a mathematical model of ‘imperfect optimisation’ to describe maritime networks. This model encodes, metaphorically, the notion of gravitational attraction between objects in space. The space studied here is the southern Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age, and the objects are the 34 main sites we know about. The ‘gravitation’ in this case is a balance of social forces, expressed by networks with settlements of particular sizes and links of particular strengths. The model can be tweaked by giving different relative importance to the cultivation of local resources or to trade, and to show what happens when a member of the network suddenly disappears.
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Maritime networks can more readily be reconstructed based on concepts such as centrality, gravity, and proximal point analysis, whereas land-based commodity flows are hampered by people often choosing apparently suboptimal routes for safety or transaction costs.
“While network analyses of land-based flows of commodities are hampered by the fact that people are known to often choose an apparently suboptimal route of travel for reasons of safety or transaction costs (Seland 2012a), maritime networks can more readily be reconstructed based on concepts such as centrality, gravity, and proximal point analysis (Knappett et al. 2008;Rivers et al. 2013).”
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- Authors
- Knappett, C., Evans, T., & Rivers, R.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2008-12-01
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 318
- Pages
- 1009-1024
- ISSN
- 0003-598X
- 1745-1744
- Cited by
- 123
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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