Analyzing Material Culture Correlations with Multilayer Networks in Southwestern Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Multilayer networks consist of multiple layers of connections between the same set of nodes. Rarely applied in archaeology, this framework provides an opportunity to analyze different types of material culture in one analysis. This poster describes the results of a multilayer network analysis in the Southwest United States consisting of typed projectile points, typed ceramics, sourced ceramics, sourced obsidian, and architectural features. The dataset consists of nearly 600 archaeological sites dating between AD 1100 and AD 1500. The sites come from Tonto Basin, Zuni, Hopi, Kayenta, and Flagstaff regions including sites in between. The results demonstrate how communities can be detected through the use of multiple types of material culture and how different types of material culture networks are correlated.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52578