World Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Historical Archaeology, as properly defined, is the archaeology of the Modern World - plus or minus the last half millennium of human global evolution. Various inception dates have been suggested for the initiation of the processes that produced modernity:1415. 1453, 1481, 1492,1494, 1500, 1550 or even 1946. To fully understand the Modern World and its archaeology, its precursors and roots also need to be recognized. Techological diffusion spheres, interregional trade, continential movements of...
Space Syntax Analysis For Poverty Point World Heritage Site: The Ubiquitous And Unending Social Logic of Space? (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many aspects of cultures change with location and time: language, ideologies, degrees of social complexity. I look here at the social logic of space that Hillier and Hanson (1984) argued is used universally to convey abstract social realms by physical systems that provided social solidarity. Geographers who study contemporary...