度量关系的新方法:考古学中的网络分析

A New Approach to Measuring Connections:Network Analysis in Archaeology

考古学中的网络分析以节点和链接为底层架构,强调以联系的视角去看待事物本身及其发展过程,探究此种联系是如何对古代社会的进程产生影响的。两个学术传统的交织塑造了当前网络分析在考古学中的面貌:社会网络分析(Social network analysis)和复杂性科学(Complexity science)。其研究思路分为两种:一种是探索性的数据阐释,另一种是假说—建模—验证的方法。考古学中的网络分析在人群交流、技术传播、等级分化等重大考古学议题中展现出了巨大的研究潜力。

Network analysis in archaeology uses nodes and links as the underlying structure.It views things and their development processes as connected,and explores how such connections affect the development of ancient society.The interweaving of two academic fields of Social Network Analysis and Complexity Science has shaped the face of current network analysis in archaeology,which mainly takes two research approaches:exploratory data interpretation and the hypothesis-modeling-verification method.Network analysis in archaeology has shown great potential in major archaeological studies such as crowd communication,technology dissemination,and hierarchical differentiation.