Author, as appears in the article.: Prignano L; Morer I; Fulminante F; Lozano S
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Lozano Pérez, Sergio
Keywords: Settlement hierarchy Roads Patterns Middle bronze Mesopotamia
Abstract: © 2019 Ancient regional routes were vital for interactions between settlements and deeply influenced the development of past societies and their “complexification”. At the same time, since any transportation infrastructure needs some level of inter-settlement cooperation to be established, they can also be regarded as an epiphenomenon of social interactions at the regional scale. Here, we propose to analyze ancient pathway networks to understand the organization of cities and villages located in a certain territory, attempting to clarify whether such organization existed and if so, how it functioned. To address such a question, we chose a quantitative approach. Adopting network science as a general framework, by means of formal models, we try to identify how the collective effort that produced the terrestrial infrastructure was directed and organized. We selected a paradigmatic case study: Iron Age southern Etruria, a very well-studied context, with detailed archaeological information about settlement patterns and an established tradition of studies on terrestrial transportation routes, perfectly suitable for testing new techniques. The results of the modelling suggest that a balanced coordinated decision-making process was shaping the route network in Etruria, a scenario which correlates well with the picture elaborated by different scholars using a more traditional technique.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Química Planejamento urbano e regional / demografia Odontología Medicina veterinaria Medicina ii Materiais Interdisciplinar History Historia Geosciences, multidisciplinary Geociências Engenharias ii Engenharias i Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências agrárias i Biotecnología Biodiversidade Astronomia / física Archeology (arts and humanities) Archeology Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia Anthropology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: sergio.lozano@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-1895-9327
Record's date: 2024-06-15
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440318306630
Papper original source: Journal Of Archaeological Science. 105 46-58
APA: Prignano L; Morer I; Fulminante F; Lozano S (2019). Modelling terrestrial route networks to understand inter-polity interactions (southern Etruria, 950-500 BC). Journal Of Archaeological Science, 105(), 46-58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2019.02.007
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2019.02.007
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2019
Publication Type: Journal Publications