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Introduction : why networks? / Carl Knappett -- Social network analysis and the practice of history / John Edward Terrell -- 'O what a tangled web we weave' : towards a practice that does not deceive / Leif Isaksen -- Broken links and black boxes : material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world / Søren M. Sindbæk -- Positioning power in a multi-relational framework : a social network analysis of classic Maya political rhetoric / Jonathan B. Scholnick, Jessica L. Munson, and Martha J. Macri -- What makes a site important? : centrality, gateways, and gravity / Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Tim Evans -- Evolution of prestige good systems : an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media / Koji Mizoguchi -- The dynamics of social networks in the late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest / Barbara J. Mills, John M. Roberts Jr., Jeffery J. Clark, William R. Haas Jr., Deborah Huntley, Matthew A. Peeples, Lewis Borck, Susan C. Ryan, Meaghan Trowbridge, and Ronald L. Breiger -- Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy / Emma Blake -- Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis / Anna Collar -- Grounding the net : social networks, material culture, and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (21-6,000 cal BCE) / Fiona Coward -- Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data : a case study from the Kuril Islands / Erik Gjesfjeld and S. Colby Phillips -- Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean / Angus Mol and Jimmy Mans -- Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond / Sander van der Leeuw

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance theoretical approaches and analytical tools for studying maritime connectivity. For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended on a distinct environment and technological parameters that created diverse challenges and opportunities, making the modeling of maritime interaction a paramount concern for understanding cultural interaction more generally. Network-inspired metaphors have long been employed in discussions of this interaction, but increasing theoretical sophistication and advances in formal network analysis now offer opportunities to refine and test the dominant paradigm of connectivity. Extending from prehistory into the Byzantine period, the case studies here reveal the potential of such network approaches. Collectively they explore the social, economic, religious, and political structures that guided Mediterranean interaction across maritime space

This volume represents a tribute by friends, family and colleagues to Hugh Sackett, a British archaeologist who led important excavations at Knossos, Palaikastro and Lefkandi in Greece. Organised in two parts, 'Reminiscences' and 'Archaeological Contributions', the texts speak both to Hugh's dual life as archaeologist and teacher, and his important contributions to Aegean and Greek prehistory. These varied papers, many richly illustrated, reflect on his impact in the field or discuss specific details of the sites he worked on. Other texts treat more general aspects of Greek prehistory. Many of the contributions discuss the site of Palaikastro where Hugh worked first in the early 1960s and then again from 1983 onwards