Multiscalar Perspectives on Social Networks in the Late Prehispanic Southwest

• DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.3
• Publication Date: 2015-01-30T22:36:43Z
• Authors: Barbara J. Mills; Matthew A. Peeples; W. Randall Haas; Lewis Borck; Jeffery J. Clark; John M. Roberts
• Keywords: Human settlement; Fifteenth; Social Network Analysis; Social network (sociolinguistics)

Abstract Analyzing historical trajectories of social interactions at varying scales can lead to complementary interpretations relationships among archaeological settlements. We use network analysis combined with geographic information systems three spatial over time in the western U.S. Southwest show how same processes affected dynamics each scale. The period we address, A.D. 1200–1450, was characterized by migration and demographic upheaval. tumultuous late thirteenth-century interval followed population coalescence development widespread religious movements fourteenth fifteenth centuries. In southern these resulted a highly connected that drew members different settlements within between valleys had previously been distinct. northern networks were initially more fragmented landscape. examine textures emerged scale through 50-year snapshots. results demonstrate usefulness applying multiscalar approach complex potential for as applied data.