Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces

Andrew Bevan is a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. He has active research interests in the social construction of value across widely ranging time periods and cultural contexts, with a particular focus on early societies in the Middle East and Mediterranean. He is author of Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2007). Mark Lake is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK and coordinator of the graduate programme in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology there. A specialist in GIS and computer simulation, he studies patterning in prehistoric field systems and models the origins of culture. He is author of several simulation programs, coeditor of Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology and of Simulating Change, and author of numerous research articles.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction,Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake2. Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions, Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li and Alessio Palmisano3. An Examination of Automated Archaeological Feature Recognition in Remotely Sensed Imagery, Kenneth Kvamme4. An Introduction to Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), Terence Clarke5. Network Models and Archaeological Spaces, Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Timothy Evans6. Multilevel Selection and the Evolution of Food Sharing in Fragmented Environments: A Spatially Explicit Model and its Implications for Early Stone Age Archaeology, L.S. Premo7. Stories of the Past or Science of the Future? Archaeology and Computational Social Science, Michael Barton8. The Potential and Limits of Optimal Path Analysis, Irmela Herzog9. Compute-Intensive GIS Visibility Analysis of the Settings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Mark Lake and Damon Ortega10. Reconsidering the Concept of Visualscape: Recent Advances in Three-Dimensional Visibility Analysis, Eleftheria Paliou11. Formal and Informal Analysis of Rendered Space: The Basilica Portuense, Graeme Earl, Vito Porcelli, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Gareth Beale, Matthew Harrison, Hembo Pagi and Simon Keay12. Reproducible Data Analysis and the Open Source Paradigm in Archaeology, Benjamin DuckeIndexAbout the Editors/Contributors

“The papers in this edited volume, which grew out of a 2010 University College London international archaeology seminar, are organized around three broad themes: spatial analysis, spatial modeling, and spatial experience. Roughly one-third of the book is devoted to each topic. The first set of three papers represents inductive, exploratory approaches to archaeological spatial analysis. The second set comprises four chapters offering more deductive and model-driven approaches. These first seven chapters of the book are the most interesting and, arguably, the most useful to the majority of analysts. The final set of three articles concerns the analysis of viewsheds, visualscapes, and 3D architectural models....Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty/professionals.”—CHOICE