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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS PART I: BACKGROUND 1. Introduction: why networks? Carl Knappett 2. Social network analysis and the practice of history 3. 'O what a tangled web we weave' - towards a practice that does not deceive PART II: SITES AND SETTLEMENTS 4. Broken links and black boxes: material affiliations and contextual network synthesis in the Viking world 5. Positioning power in a multi-relational framework: a social network analysis of Classic Maya political rhetoric 6. What makes a site important? Centrality, gateways and gravity 7. Evolution of prestige good systems: an application of network analysis to the transformation of communication systems and their media PART III: MATERIAL CULTURE 8. The dynamics of social networks in the Late Prehispanic U.S. Southwest 9. Social networks, path dependence, and the rise of ethnic groups in pre-Roman Italy 10. Re-thinking Jewish ethnicity through social network analysis 11. Grounding the net: social networks, material culture and geography in the Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic of the Near East (~21-6,000 cal BCE) 12. Evaluating adaptive network strategies with geochemical sourcing data: a case study from the Kuril Islands 13. Old boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean PART IV 14. Archaeology, networks, information processing, and beyond

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