@article{61f0f109e9194f2ab3512353dfdebdb9,
title = "Archaeological networks, community detection, and critical scales of interaction in the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest",
abstract = "Archaeologists have long recognized that spatial relationships are an important influence on and driver of all manner of social processes at scales from the local to the continental. Recent research in the realm of complex networks focused on community detection in human and animal networks suggests that there may be certain critical scales at which spatial interactions can be partitioned, allowing researchers to draw potential boundaries for interaction that provide insights into a variety of social phenomena. Thus far, this research has been focused on short time scales and has not explored the legacies of historic relationships on the evolution of network communities and boundaries over the long-term. In this study, we examine networks based on material cultural similarity drawing on a large settlement and material culture database from the U.S. Southwest/Mexican Northwest (ca. 1000–1450 CE) divided into a series of short temporal intervals. With these temporally sequenced networks we: 1) demonstrate the utility of network community detection for partitioning interactions in geographic space, 2) identify key transitions in the geographic scales of network communities, and 3) illustrate the role of previous network configurations in the evolution of network communities and their spatial boundaries through time.",
keywords = "Archaeological networks, Natural geographic scales, Network boundaries, Northwest Mexican archaeology, Social boundaries, Social networks, Southwestern archaeology",
author = "Peeples, {Matthew A.} and {J. Bischoff}, Robert",
note = "Funding Information: Thank you to Adrian Chase and April Kamp Whitaker for organizing the Society for American Archaeology session where this paper originated and thank you to Barbara Mills for serving as a discussant and providing comments on an earlier draft of this article. Thank you also to Jacob Holland-Lulewicz and an anonymous reviewer for comments that were extremely helpful in clarifying key aspects of this research. The development of the cyberSW database and platform was supported by the National Science Foundation RIDIR program [grant numbers 1738245 , , 1738181 , 1738258 , 1738062 ] and the HNDS-I program [grant number 2121925 ]. The research presented here was also supported by NSF through both the Archaeology and the Measurement, Methodology, and Statistics programs [grant numbers 1758690 , 1758606 ]. Funding Information: Thank you to Adrian Chase and April Kamp Whitaker for organizing the Society for American Archaeology session where this paper originated and thank you to Barbara Mills for serving as a discussant and providing comments on an earlier draft of this article. Thank you also to Jacob Holland-Lulewicz and an anonymous reviewer for comments that were extremely helpful in clarifying key aspects of this research. The development of the cyberSW database and platform was supported by the National Science Foundation RIDIR program [grant numbers 1738245,, 1738181, 1738258, 1738062] and the HNDS-I program [grant number 2121925]. The research presented here was also supported by NSF through both the Archaeology and the Measurement, Methodology, and Statistics programs [grant numbers 1758690, 1758606]. Data and R code used in this analysis are available on GitHub at https://github.com/mpeeples2008/CriticalScales. Due to concerns for archaeological site security, site locations are not given directly in this repository but instead derived products (distance matrices) are instead presented. All the code that was used to generate these distance matrices is also provided. The raw ceramic data were originally retrieved from cyberSW.org and can also be obtained directly there, though there may be slight differences in cases where site data have been updated since our data were obtained in June 2022. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Elsevier Inc.",
year = "2023",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101511",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "70",
journal = "Journal of Anthropological Archaeology",
issn = "0278-4165",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}