Network for Archaeologist

1 Introduction

Online resources:

• https://cdal.arch.cam.ac.uk/A11-networks/
• https://cdal.arch.cam.ac.uk/A11-networks/presentation.html

1.1 Early beginning & Sociology

Sociology, since August Comte is trying to understand human society through its ‘structure’, using systemic categorisation and scientific analysis.

From early sociologists at the end of XIXth early XXth following Comte: Durkheim, Lebon, Simmel, combined with biometrician to sociometrician (Moreno), describing this social structure as network of interaction becomes j

(From Hobson 1894, in Freeman 2003)

(From Moreno 1934, in Freeman 2003)

In the 90s, with the growing availability of data, people start to use graph and networks formalism more and more, until by 2000’s, it becomes a real “Science of Networks”

(Newman 2010) book “Networks: An introduction”, is a good symbole of the birth of this field

Nowadays, example of use of Network can be now find everywhere:

Wherever there are things and links, there are networks.

• Genetics
  (Atiia et al. 2020)

• Biochemistry (Ochieng et al. 2023)

• Epidemiology
  (Silk et al. 2022)

• Ecology
  

(Losapio et al. 2019)

• Economy
  

(Fagiolo & Luzzati 2023)

• Sociology