Archaeological thinking : between space and time
Barceló, Juan A.. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)

Date:	2002
Abstract:	The archaeological record can be described using a relevant observable feature: location. Shape, size and other properties vary from one location to another, and sometimes this variation has some appearance of continuity, which should be understood as variation between social actions due to neighbourhood relationships. Time and space are not different ways of considering the nature of archaeological locations. Consequently, "locations" can only be understood in functional terms, that is, according to what is performed at each place at each moment. In this paper, the objective is to analyse where, when and why a social action varies from one location (temporalspatial) to another. Some mathematical techniques are presented to calculate the probability of social actions at specific locations, based on the spatial properties of archaeological data. These techniques are used as a representation language for studying the concepts of accumulation and attraction, which allow the study of social space in dynamic term.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	History of applications and research projects ; Theoretical and methodological problems
Published in:	Archeologia e calcolatori, Núm. 13 (2002) , p. 237-257, ISSN 2385-1953

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