Theme:
6. A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Scaling Bronze Age Societies – Between the Micro and Macro
Content:
With the recent surge of far-reaching mobility perspectives and implementation of ‘big-data’ modelling to understand patterns of contact, Bronze Age Europe seems more connected and integrated into reigning top-down narratives of the past. Yet, these models under-communicate how local adaptation and bottom-up organization undergird these overarching mobility patterns.
It is a methodological and theoretical challenge to merge these views. With a growing body of data made available in open-access publications and databases, as well as easily available computational tools for spatial and statistical modeling we can begin to scale and compare local developments and interaction within over-arching mobility patterns. Interpretive explanations to help make sense of the accumulated data generally falter to traditional or lesser developed theoretical frameworks. Frameworks such as ‘Collective Action Theory’, ‘Anarchism theory’ and others hold the potential to integrate dynamic scaling between big-data and local polity organization but are often presented as generalized models for cross-cultural comparison, and less towards specific periods such as the European Bronze Age.
We welcome papers that explore the dynamics and interconnected perspectives between the local and interregional. In this, we encourage papers with either theoretical and/or methodological considerations that address scaling and modelling of quantitative data to compare and connect the heterogeneity of local polities within overarching interaction networks (e.g. trade, warfare, etc.) of the European Bronze Age. The aim of the session is to investigate how we can bridge the gap between qualitative interpretation and quantitative data collecting.
Keywords:
Bronze Age, Social Organization, Quanitative data, Multi-scalar analysis
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Knut Ivar Austvoll (Norway) 1,2
Co-organisers:
Christian Horn (Sweden) 2
Nils Anfinset (Norway) 3
Affiliations:
1. University of Oslo
2. University of Gothenburg
3. University of Bergen
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