Space Syntax Analysis For Poverty Point World Heritage Site: The Ubiquitous And Unending Social Logic of Space?

Summary

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 communities, their work is widely employed by engineers, urban planners, and mathematicians. Social solidarity is used in this argument to refer to both the organized and mechanical types of solidarity as defined by Durkheim. To investigate the possibility that space syntax has been used throughout the prehistoric and historic periods, I apply space syntax analysis to the earthen monumental structures at Poverty Point World Heritage Site with references to the Neolithic burial mounds of Brú na Bóinne in Ireland and the Carnac Megaliths in Brittany, France.

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