2006 ‘Networks, Agent-Based Modeling, and the Antonine Itineraries’. In The Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 19.1: 45-64.
It occurred to me that some of you might like to read this.
I’ve got some other papers kicking around that I would like to expose to a wider readership; I’ll post those too, once I find them on this machine again… my how cluttered things can get!
I’ve been thinking of doing this for some time, but the kick in the pants I needed was courtesy of http://publishingarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/06/please-post-your-papers-on-internet.html
Abstract:
This paper presents a way of looking at Roman space from a Roman perspective, and suggests ways in which this point of view might open up new approaches in Roman archaeology. It turns on one conception of Roman space in particular, preserved for us in the Antonine Itineraries. Working from a position that considers the context of the itineraries as movement-through-space, this paper presents an investigation using social network analysis and agent-based simulation to re-animate the itineraries. The itineraries for Iberia, Gaul, Italy, and Britain are considered. The results of the social network analysis suggest structural differences in the way that the itineraries presented space to the reader/traveler. The results of the simulation of information diffusion through these regions following the routes in the itineraries suggest ways that this conception of space affected the cultural and material development of these regions. Suggestions for extending the basic model for more complicated archaeolgoical analyses are presented.
Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival
In my inbox:
*Your time is running out! Only eight days remain* to submit entries for
the 2010 edition of *The Archaeology Channel* International Film and Video
Festival. This is the only international competition for this genre in the
entire Western Hemisphere and a wonderful showcase for your work. Our
deadline for receipt of entries is *October 15**, 2009*. TAC Festival 2010
takes place May 18-22, 2010, in the Soreng Theater of the Hult Center for
the Performing Arts here in Eugene, Oregon, USA. Attached here is the entry
form with our guidelines. Please read the guidelines carefully, as we
depend on you for accurate information. Further information is posted at
http://www.archaeol ogychannel. org/content/ TACfestival. shtml.
Have you been procrastinating? *Please* do not wait to send your entries,
because a burdensome flood of entries at the last moment will slow down our
review and notification process. In previous years, some entries
regrettably were rejected because of errors in entry forms or problems with
the film review copies. If you allow plenty of time for these problems to
be resolved, you can help assure that you will not be excluded from
consideration. Also, we encourage you to make plans to attend the Festival
to represent your films and also to participate in our Conference on Cultural
Heritage Film.
For our last Festival, we received 87 entries from 25 countries. We hope to
exceed those numbers this year and to attract the world’s best films in our
genre to this competition, but we need your help to accomplish this. With
your support and participation, we can continue to grow TAC Festival as a
promotional tool for your good work.
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Google Wave & Archaeology
I’ve been involved with a couple of projects now, where the emails, the documentation, the whiteboards, the databases all morphed into a huge ugly monster. O Google, What Can Thou Doest About This?
From the horse’s mouth. Wired had a very good story about it, but darned if I can find it now. But if it works as well as the video suggests it ought to (a big if)… big collaborative research projects ought to get a whole lot easier…
Perhaps.
